Have reading time corpora been leaked into LM pre-training corpora? Should you be cautious about using pre-trained LM surprisal as a consequence? We identify the longest overlapping token sequences and conclude the leakage is mostly not severe. In Findings of #ACL2025 #ACL2025NLP

Looking forward to attending CogSci this week! I'll be giving a talk (see below) at the Reasoning Across Minds and Machines workshop on Wednesday at 10:25 AM, and will be around most of the week — feel free to reach out if you'd like to meet up!

1/7 If you're at CogSci 2025, I'd love to see you at my talk on Friday 1pm PDT in Nob Hill A! I'll be talking about our work towards an implemented computational model of noisy-channel comprehension (with jacob lou hoo vigly ⍼, Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT, and Roger Levy).

Is the Language of Thought == Language? A Thread 🧵 New Preprint (link: tinyurl.com/LangLOT) with Alexander Fung, Paris Jaggers, Jason Chen, Josh Rule, Dr Yael Benn, CoCoSci MIT, steven t. piantadosi, Rosemary Varley, Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦 1/8

(1)💡NEW PUBLICATION💡 Word and construction probabilities explain the acceptability of certain long-distance dependency structures Work with Curtis Chen and Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT Link to paper: tedlab.mit.edu/tedlab_website… In memory of Curtis Chen.

Can't wait for #CCN2025! Drop by to say hi to me / collaborators! Badr AlKhamissi Yingtian Tang Taha Binhuraib 🦉 Antoine Bosselut Martin Schrimpf Andrea de Varda Saima Malik-Moraleda Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦 Elizabeth L cvnlab

🤖🧠 NEW PAPER ON COGSCI & AI 🧠🤖 Recent neural networks capture properties long thought to require symbols: compositionality, productivity, rapid learning So what role should symbols play in theories of the mind? For our answer...read on! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2508.05776 1/n

Road to Bordeaux ✈️🇫🇷 for #SLE2025! Where I am going to present IconicITA!! An Abstraction Project ERC-StG Università di Bologna and Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca joint project on iconicity ratings ☑️ for the Italian language across L1 and L2 speakers! M.bolognesi Beatrice Giustolisi Ani.ravelli Andrea de Varda Chiara Saponaro

Are there conceptual directions in VLMs that transcend modality? Check out our COLM spotlight🔦 paper! We analyze how linear concepts interact with multimodality in VLM embeddings using SAEs with Chloe H. Su, @napoolar, Sham Kakade and Stephanie Gil arxiv.org/abs/2504.11695

Check out our* new preprint on decoding open-ended information seeking goals from eye movements! *Proud to say that my main contribution to this work are the banger model names: DalEye Llama and DalEye LLaVa! arxiv.org/abs/2505.02872

As our lab started to build encoding 🧠 models, we were trying to figure out best practices in the field. So Taha Binhuraib 🦉 built a library to easily compare design choices & model features across datasets! We hope it will be useful to the community & plan to keep expanding it! 1/

The compling group at UT Austin (sites.utexas.edu/compling/) is looking for PhD students! Come join me, Kyle Mahowald, and Jessy Li as we tackle interesting research questions at the intersection of ling, cogsci, and ai! Some topics I am particularly interested in:

What makes some sentences more memorable than others? Our new paper gathers memorability norms for 2500 sentences using a recognition paradigm, building on past work in visual and word memorability. Greta Tuckute Bryan Medina Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦