The distributional embedding conjecture for intelligent language models

Let S\mathcal{S} be the set of sentences, let L\mathscr{L} be a causal language model, and let

ρL:SB(S,R)\rho_{\mathscr{L}}:\mathcal{S}\rightarrow\mathcal{B}(\mathcal{S},\mathbb{R})

map each sentence to its output-probability distribution, where B(S,R)\mathcal{B}(\mathcal{S},\mathbb{R}) is the metric space of absolutely summable real-valued functions on S\mathcal{S}. The distributional embedding conjecture. If L\mathscr{L} is an intelligent language model, then ρL\rho_{\mathscr{L}} is a discrete embedding: every point ρL(s)\rho_{\mathscr{L}}(\mathbf{s}) has a neighborhood containing no other ρL(s)\rho_{\mathscr{L}}(\mathbf{s}') with ss\mathbf{s}'\neq\mathbf{s}. The claim formalizes a distributional version of the linguistic idea that meaning is determined by context; the paper gives no resolution of whether intelligent language models satisfy this property.

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Wenzhe Yang, “Entropy, Thermodynamics and the Geometrization of the Language Model”, arXiv:2407.21092 (2024).

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