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Simon Ostermann

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#natural language process... Review Sep 2026

When Tokenization is Secretly Output Supervision

It is argued that framing tokenization as output supervision provides a principled account of why tokenization consistently affects model performance, and that differences in task performance, training dynamics, and model internals are induced by output tokenization and largely invariant to input tokenization.

Tanja Baeumel, Josef van Genabith, Simon Ostermann · 0 citations

#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Separating Syntax from Language: A Mechanistic Account of Translation in Multilingual LLMs

It is shown that translation is even more modular than previously assumed and that the output language production in translation processes is actually further separable into a syntax and a surface language process.

M. Sonkin, Tanja Baeumel, Daniil Gurgurov et al. · 0 citations