Position: Understanding LLMs Requires More Than Statistical Generalization

P Reizinger, S Ujváry, A Mészáros, A Kerekes… - Forty-first International … - openreview.net
The last decade has seen blossoming research in deep learning theory attempting to
answer,``Why does deep learning generalize?" A powerful shift in perspective precipitated …

Lessons from Identifiability for Understanding Large Language Models

Many interesting properties emerge in LLMs, including rule extrapolation, in-context
learning, and data-efficient fine-tunability. We demonstrate that good statistical …