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Can a listener recover what a speaker means from the form of an utterance alone?
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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 recovers a speaker's intended meaning from a representation of the utterance. The bounds are governed by the uncertainty that form leaves about meaning, which splits into an irreducible part and a part tha...
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ID: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.28560v1 · Indexed 15 days ago