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ARXIV:2605.31586 · LLM UNDERSTANDING · SUBMITTED 01 JUN · 20:30 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2605.31586LLM UNDERSTANDINGSUBMITTED 01 JUN · 20:30 UTCFRESHNESS STALEWesley Scivetti · Ethan Wilcox · Nathan Schneider · Kanishka Misra · Leonie Weissweiler · arXiv
Investigating how language models learn constructional semantics, finding that modestly sized models can grasp rare constructions with gains in world knowledge.
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Investigating how language models learn constructional semantics, finding that modestly sized models can grasp rare constructions with gains in world knowledge. It remains an open question if open-source models have robust constructional understanding, and…
Grasping the semantics of rare constructions (form-meaning pairings) has been shown to be a challenging problem that has currently only been solved by the largest LLMs. It remains an open question if open-source models…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 3.0/10 on the public viability pass. Overall, our empirical results support the conclusion that modestly sized open-source models can grasp the rare Paired-Focus constructions, and demonstrate a connection between knowledge…
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Investigating how language models learn constructional semantics, finding that modestly sized models can grasp rare constructions with gains in world knowledge.
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10.48550/arXiv.2605.31586Investigating how language models learn constructional semantics, finding that modestly sized models can grasp rare constructions with gains in world knowledge.
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Grasping the semantics of rare constructions (form-meaning pairings) has been shown to be a challenging problem that has currently only been solved by the largest LLMs. It remains an open question if open-source models have robust constructional understanding, and if so, what learning dynamics underlie the acquisition of this knowledge. Focusing on a set of rare Paired-Focus constructions in English (e.g. "let alone", "much less"), we construct a novel dataset to test their meanings using both scalar adjectival semantics and general world knowledge. Testing a wide range of models differing in parameter count, architecture, and pretraining dataset size, we find that several modestly sized models are sensitive to both the forms and the meanings of Paired-Focus constructions, though models trained on human-scale data fail at all meaning evaluations. Turning to training dynamics for a set of open-checkpoint models, we find that Paired-Focus understanding emerges later in training than Paired-Focus syntactic knowledge, and that learning of Paired-Focus semantics is correlated with gains in some domains of world knowledge. Overall, our empirical results support the conclusion that modestly sized open-source models can grasp the rare Paired-Focus constructions, and demonstrate a connection between knowledge of Paired-Focus constructions and other meaning domains.
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Investigating how language models learn constructional semantics, finding that modestly sized models can grasp rare constructions with gains in world knowledge. It remains an open question if open-source models have robust constructional understanding, and if so, what learning d...
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Grasping the semantics of rare constructions (form-meaning pairings) has been shown to be a challenging problem that has currently only been solved by the largest LLMs. It remains an open question if open-source models have robust constructional understanding, and if so, what le...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 3.0/10 on the public viability pass. Overall, our empirical results support the conclusion that modestly sized open-source models can grasp the rare Paired-Focus constructions, and demonstrate a connection between knowledge of Paired-Focus c...
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LLM Understanding moved forward this cycle; last verified June 2026. Public score 3.0/10. Implementation evidence is present through a linked repository.
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