Paper recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-08-28 in cs.CL. Abstract reproduced from arXiv; link to the original below.
Published 2026-08-28 on arXiv · recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-08-31
Category: cs.CL · 自然语言处理 · first seen 2026-08-31
Can a listener recover what a speaker means from the form of an utterance alone? We answer this question information-theoretically, and for a listener given by any featurizer of text, including the hidden states of contemporary large language models. Modeling language use as a joint distribution over meanings, contexts, and utterances, we derive upper bounds on the probability that a decoder recov