Roni Katzir
rkatzir.bsky.social
Roni Katzir
@rkatzir.bsky.social
Linguist at Tel Aviv University
https://taucompling.github.io/
Reposted by Roni Katzir
📄 New paper: “A Minimum Description Length Approach to Regularization in Neural Networks”
with Orr Well, Emmanuel Chemla, @rkatzir.bsky.social and @nurikolan.bsky.social

We explore why neural networks often struggle with simple, structured tasks.
Spoiler: our regularizers might be the problem.

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May 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Reposted by Roni Katzir
LLMs are bad theories of human linguistic cognition but can be useful proxies for less bad ones. Here's how and why it might be useful:
arxiv.org/abs/2502.07687

Joint paper with @nurikolan.bsky.social, Emmanuel Chemla and @rkatzir.bsky.social
Large Language Models as Proxies for Theories of Human Linguistic Cognition
We consider the possible role of current large language models (LLMs) in the study of human linguistic cognition. We focus on the use of such models as proxies for theories of cognition that are relat...
arxiv.org
February 12, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Reposted by Roni Katzir
"Come co-edit a special issue with me, it will be fun"
October 4, 2023 at 8:10 AM