2026
Linguistic Properties and Model Scale in Brain Encoding: From Small to Compressed Language Models
Subba Reddy Oota, Satya Sai Srinath Namburi GNVV, Vijay Rowtula, Khushbu Pahwa, Anant Khandelwal, Manish Gupta +2
ICML 2026spotlight
Recent work has shown that scaling large language models (LLMs) improves their alignment with human brain activity, yet it remains unclear what drives these gains or which representational properties are responsible. Although larger models often yield better task performance and brain alignment, the…