Children accelerate word learning while language models do not
Read the original at arxiv.org→arXiv:2608.17120v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Children learn hundreds of words over the first years of their lives, in a process that begins slowly but quickly picks up speed. Prior models describe vocabulary...
Original headline: "Children, but not language models, show accelerating returns in word learning"
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- Aug 19, 04:00 UTC arXiv cs.CL lead source Children, but not language models, show accelerating returns in word learning