Nina Nusbaumer
nina-nusbaumer.bsky.social
Nina Nusbaumer
@nina-nusbaumer.bsky.social
Sentence processing modeling | Computational psycholinguistics | 1st year PhD student at LLF, CNRS, Université Paris Cité | Currently visiting COLT, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

https://ninanusb.github.io/
Reposted by Nina Nusbaumer
Another banger from @tallinzen.bsky.social .

Also fits with some of the criticisms of Centaur and my faculty-based approach generally; if you want LLMs to model human cognition, give them more architecture akin to human faculty psychology like long and short-term memory.

arxiv.org/abs/2510.05141
To model human linguistic prediction, make LLMs less superhuman
When people listen to or read a sentence, they actively make predictions about upcoming words: words that are less predictable are generally read more slowly than predictable ones. The success of larg...
arxiv.org
October 15, 2025 at 1:58 PM
First paper is out! Had so much fun presenting it in Marseille last July 🇨🇵

We explore how transformers handle compositionality by exploring the representations of the idiomatic and literal meaning of the same noun phrase (e.g. "silver spoon").

aclanthology.org/2025.jeptaln...
October 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM