Tom McCoy
Affiliations:- Princeton University, NJ, USA
- Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA (former)
- Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA (former)
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Tom McCoy authored at least 51 papers
between 2017 and 2026.
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2026
Causal Interventions on Continuous Variables: A Case Study on Verb Bias in Steering Vectors for In-Context Learning.
CoRR, May, 2026
Collocational bootstrapping: A hypothesis about the learning of subject-verb agreement in humans and neural networks.
CoRR, May, 2026
Not-So-Strange Love: Language Models and Generative Linguistic Theories are More Compatible than They Appear.
CoRR, May, 2026
What Exactly do Children Receive in Language Acquisition? A Case Study on CHILDES with Automated Detection of Filler-Gap Dependencies.
CoRR, March, 2026
Evaluating the Usage of African-American Vernacular English in Large Language Models.
CoRR, February, 2026
2025
The Structural Sources of Verb Meaning Revisited: Large Language Models Display Syntactic Bootstrapping.
CoRR, August, 2025
Identifying and Mitigating the Influence of the Prior Distribution in Large Language Models.
CoRR, April, 2025
Using the Tools of Cognitive Science to Understand Large Language Models at Different Levels of Analysis.
CoRR, March, 2025
What Should Embeddings Embed? Autoregressive Models Represent Latent Generating Distributions.
Trans. Mach. Learn. Res., 2025
Creativity or Brute Force? Using Brainteasers as a Window into the Problem-Solving Abilities of Large Language Models.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2025, 2025
Is In-Context Learning a Type of Error-Driven Learning? Evidence from the Inverse Frequency Effect in Structural Priming.
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2025
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025, 2025
Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025
Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025
Teasing Apart Architecture and Initial Weights as Sources of Inductive Bias in Neural Networks.
Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025
2024
When a language model is optimized for reasoning, does it still show embers of autoregression? An analysis of OpenAI o1.
CoRR, 2024
Is In-Context Learning a Type of Gradient-Based Learning? Evidence from the Inverse Frequency Effect in Structural Priming.
CoRR, 2024
CoRR, 2024
Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP, 2024
Deciphering the Factors Influencing the Efficacy of Chain-of-Thought: Probability, Memorization, and Noisy Reasoning.
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, 2024
Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024
2023
How Much Do Language Models Copy From Their Training Data? Evaluating Linguistic Novelty in Text Generation Using RAVEN.
Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics, 2023
CoRR, 2023
Embers of Autoregression: Understanding Large Language Models Through the Problem They are Trained to Solve.
CoRR, 2023
Modeling rapid language learning by distilling Bayesian priors into artificial neural networks.
CoRR, 2023
How poor is the stimulus? Evaluating hierarchical generalization in neural networks trained on child-directed speech.
Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2023
2022
Structural Biases for Improving Transformers on Translation into Morphologically Rich Languages.
CoRR, 2022
Neurocompositional Computing: From the Central Paradox of Cognition to a New Generation of AI Systems.
AI Mag., 2022
2021
Infinite use of finite means? Evaluating the generalization of center embedding learned from an artificial grammar.
Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021
2020
Does Syntax Need to Grow on Trees? Sources of Hierarchical Inductive Bias in Sequence-to-Sequence Networks.
Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics, 2020
Picking BERT's Brain: Probing for Linguistic Dependencies in Contextualized Embeddings Using Representational Similarity Analysis.
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2020
Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020
Discovering the Compositional Structure of Vector Representations with Role Learning Networks.
Proceedings of the Third BlackboxNLP Workshop on Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, 2020
BERTs of a feather do not generalize together: Large variability in generalization across models with similar test set performance.
Proceedings of the Third BlackboxNLP Workshop on Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, 2020
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020
Representations of Syntax [MASK] Useful: Effects of Constituency and Dependency Structure in Recursive LSTMs.
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020
2019
Proceedings of the Eighth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, 2019
What do you learn from context? Probing for sentence structure in contextualized word representations.
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Learning Representations, 2019
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Learning Representations, 2019
Can You Tell Me How to Get Past Sesame Street? Sentence-Level Pretraining Beyond Language Modeling.
Proceedings of the 57th Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019
Right for the Wrong Reasons: Diagnosing Syntactic Heuristics in Natural Language Inference.
Proceedings of the 57th Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019
2018
CoRR, 2018
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2018
Revisiting the poverty of the stimulus: hierarchical generalization without a hierarchical bias in recurrent neural networks.
Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018
2017
Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms, 2017
Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2017