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famouswafflestoday at 3:59 AM1 replyview on HN

>There are grammar rules, they are just very weak because the structure of human language is generally quite weak. When presented with languages which have strong consistent grammars the weights are very easily interpretable as a grammar: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02177

That paper did not train the models on 'a language with strong consistent grammars'. Mathematical Operation tables are not a language. Grammar itself is a post-hoc rationalization and there's no evidence LLMs follow 'grammar rules' anymore than the brain follows grammar rules. Of Course, that's not to say transformers can't learn simple rules if the dataset calls for it.


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dananstoday at 6:42 AM

> Mathematical Operation tables are not a language.

Not a natural language, but they are certainly a language as in a symbolic representation of information.