Vectors from Larger Language Models Predict Human Reading Time and fMRI Data More Poorly when Dimensionality Expansion is Controlled

arXiv:2505.12196 · cs.CL · Submitted 2025-05-18 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2025-05-18

Updated: 2026-08-29

Code: https://github.com/kingoflolz/mesh-transformer-jax

Terminology

• Transformer — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Perplexity — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Predictive Coding — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• OPT: Open Pre-trained Transformer Language Models

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