Bridging the data gap between children and large language models

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Abstract

Large language models show intriguing emergent behaviors, yet they receive around 4-5 orders of magnitude more language data than human children. What accounts for this vast difference in sample efficiency? Candidate explanations include children’s pre-existing conceptual structures, their use of multimodal grounding, and the interactive, social nature of their input.

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