Unconstrained surprisal theory is a tautology: for any non-negative difficulty measure, a language model exists whose surprisal matches it affinely.
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Surprisal Theory is Tautological (without Rational Grounding)
Unconstrained surprisal theory is a tautology: for any non-negative difficulty measure, a language model exists whose surprisal matches it affinely.