Papers by Jonathan Drechsel
Understanding or Memorizing? A Case Study of German Definite Articles in Language Models (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | grammatical agreement is unclear whether language models rely on memorization or generalization . morphologically rich languages such as German have syncretic forms that are syncretically arranged . |
| Approach: | They use a GRADIEND-based interpretability method to learn parameter update directions for gender-case specific article transitions. |
| Outcome: | Using GRADIEND, we find that updates learned for gender-case specific article transitions affect unrelated gender- case settings . |