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Large Language Models Converge on Brain-Like Word Representations (arxiv.org)
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In plain words: The study compares how language models arrange words and phrases in their internal space with the patterns seen in brain scans of people listening or reading. Bigger models' arrangements matched the brain patterns more closely than smaller ones.

Abstract · Structural Similarities Between Language Models and Neural Response Measurements

Large language models (LLMs) have complicated internal dynamics, but induce representations of words and phrases whose geometry we can study. Human language processing is also opaque, but neural response measurements can provide (noisy) recordings of activation during listening or reading, from which we can extract similar representations of words and phrases. Here we study the extent to which the geometries induced by these representations, share similarities in the context of brain decoding. We find that the larger neural language models get, the more their representations are structurally similar to neural response measurements from brain imaging. Code is available at \url{https://github.com/coastalcph/brainlm}.

Jiaang Li, Antonia Karamolegkou, Yova Kementchedjhieva, Mostafa Abdou, Sune Lehmann, Anders Søgaard
arXiv:2306.01930 · cs.CL, cs.AI · submitted Jun 2, 2023 · updated Oct 31, 2023
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