{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_ztvt2fjf72sddutrrvwq","title":"Larry Caused the Car to Stop, But the Model Didn't Notice: Transformer Blindness to the M-Heuristic","title_en":null,"outlets":1,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/larry-caused-the-car-to-stop-but-the-model-didnt-notice-transformer-ztvt2fjf72","count":1,"items":[{"id":"n_ztvt2fjf72sddutrrvwq","seq":819848,"kind":"article","title":"Larry Caused the Car to Stop, But the Model Didn't Notice: Transformer Blindness to the M-Heuristic","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.37497","summary":"arXiv:2609.37497v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern transformer models excel at capturing semantic relationships through sentence embeddings, yet their ability to perform pragmatic reasoning remains understudied. This paper investigates whether encoder-based transformers such as DeBERTa employ the M-Heuristic (the neo-Gricean principle that marked linguistic forms implicate marked meanings). We test this hypothesis by contrasting lexical causatives (e.g., ``Larry stopped…","published":"2026-09-30T04:00:00Z","seen":"2026-09-30T04:33:26Z","lang":"en","source":{"id":"kite-export-arxiv-org-4e3a51","name":"export.arxiv.org","domain":"export.arxiv.org"},"via":"kite-export-arxiv-org-4e3a51","topics":["ai","cs.cl"],"authors":["Stefania Butnaru, Claudiu Creanga"],"entities":[{"id":"Q2262318","name":"Larry","type":"person"}],"story":"st_ztvt2fjf72sddutrrvwq","category":"science-technology","category_p":0.4699999988079071,"sentiment":"neutral","tone":-0.14000000059604645,"political":0.019999999552965164}]}