Semantic role understanding partially emerges during language model pre-training, with linear probes on frozen representations achieving substantial performance that improves with scale but does not match fine-tuned models, and representations shifting toward more distributed forms at larger scales.
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Emergent Semantic Role Understanding in Language Models
Semantic role understanding partially emerges during language model pre-training, with linear probes on frozen representations achieving substantial performance that improves with scale but does not match fine-tuned models, and representations shifting toward more distributed forms at larger scales.