Pratyusha Sharma

Nov 1, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Pratyusha Sharma |Shane Gero |Daniela Rus |Antonio Torralba

AbstractLanguage models (LMs), which are neural sequence predictors trained to model distributions over natural language texts, have come to play a central role in human language technologies like machine translation and information retrieval. They have also contributed to the scientific study of human language itself, enabling progress on long-standing questions about the learnability, optimality, and universality of key features of human languages.

May 6, 2024 | nature.com | Pratyusha Sharma |Shane Gero |David Gruber |Daniela Rus

AbstractSperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) are highly social mammals that communicate using sequences of clicks called codas. While a subset of codas have been shown to encode information about caller identity, almost everything else about the sperm whale communication system, including its structure and information-carrying capacity, remains unknown. We show that codas exhibit contextual and combinatorial structure.