Syntactic Generalization in Language Models

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  1. From Parallels to Divergence: Language Models' Learning of Action Nominal Constructions

    Oct 15, 2026Iskar Deng, Shane Steinert-ThrelkeldSyntactic Generalization in Language ModelsLanguage Modeling

    University of Washington

  2. A Scaled-Up Empirical Study of Syntactic Language Models

    Oct 12, 2026Pengcheng Wang, Zhexuan Zhang, Chao Lou +1Syntactic Generalization in Language ModelsLanguage Modeling

    School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University · Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Intelligent Vision and Imaging · Independent researcher

  3. Typological Alignment of Stack-Based Language Models on Mildly Context-Sensitive Artificial Languages

    Oct 1, 2026Nadine El-Naggar, Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Ted BriscoeSyntactic Generalization in Language ModelsLanguage Modeling

    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Tohoku University

  4. Generalization and Memorization along the Learning Trajectory of Neural Language Models: A Geometric Account of Categorization

    Sep 26, 2026Wang Bojun, Holly Jenkins, Elizabeth WonnacottMemorization in Language ModelsLanguage Modeling

  5. Generalization through Lexical Abstraction in Transformer Models: The Case of Functional Words

    Sep 17, 2026Giuseppe Samo, Vivi Nastase, Paola MerloTransformer InterpretabilityWord Embeddings

    Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland · University of Geneva, Swizerland

  6. FreqBLiMP: Frequency-Controlled Minimal Pairs Reveal Robustness and Fragility of LLMs Under Lexical Rarity

    Sep 7, 2026Tyrone White, Yuki AraseLLM EvaluationSyntactic Generalization in Language Models

    School of Computing, Institute of Science Tokyo Tokyo, Japan

  7. Disentangling Statistical Preemption from Entrenchment in Language Models' Avoidance of Overgeneralization

    Sep 1, 2026Yixuan Wang, Freda Shi, Kanishka MisraSyntactic Generalization in Language ModelsLanguage Modeling

    University of Waterloo Vector Institute · Department of Linguistics University of Texas at Austin

  8. Does Episodic Memory Help Close the Lexical Frequency Gap in Sensitivity to Syntactic Contrasts? A Test Using Retrieval-Augmented Language Models

    Aug 24, 2026Jing Liu, Najoung KimMemory-Augmented Language ModelsSyntactic Generalization in Language Models

    CoML Team, LSCP ENS, Université PSL, EHESS, CNRS · Department of Linguistics Boston University

  9. Beyond Sequence Order: Syntax-Informed Positional Embeddings for Transformers

    Aug 6, 2026Haris Riaz, Hyungji Kim, Mihai SurdeanuLanguage Model PretrainingPositional Encoding

    Department of Computer Science University of Arizona Tucson, AZ, USA

  10. Language Models Generalize to Human-like Word Order Preferences

    Aug 5, 2026Amanda Popadich, Shane Steinert-ThrelkeldSyntactic Generalization in Language ModelsLanguage Modeling

    Department of Linguistics, University of Washington

  11. Exposure is Optional: Learning Unlike Coordination in Language Models

    Jul 22, 2026Jiamu Luo, Shane Steinert-ThrelkeldSyntactic Generalization in Language ModelsLanguage Modeling

    Department of Linguistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA

  12. A Pre-Training Analogue of Grokking in Language Models: Tracing Delayed Grammatical Generalization

    May 29, 2026Sherin Muckatira, Namrata Shivagunde, Vijeta Deshpande +1Language Model PretrainingNeural Network Generalization

    University of Massachusetts Lowell

  13. Filling in the Mechanisms: How do LMs Learn Filler-Gap Dependencies under Developmental Constraints?

    Apr 15, 2026Atrey Desai, Sathvik NairSyntactic Generalization in Language ModelsLanguage Modeling

    University of Maryland