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PublishedMay 18, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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Why are language models less surprised than humans? Testing the Parse Multiplicity Mismatch Hypothesis
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arXiv:2605.15440v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Surprisal theory posits that the processing difficulty of a word is determined by its predictability in context, offering a potential link between human sentence processing and next-word predictions from language models. While language model (LM) surpr
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