Research author
Ryan Cotterell
8 AI research papers in the One9Founders library, with summaries and links to original sources.
Papers by Ryan Cotterell
Aug 28, 2026
cs.CL
A Formal Limitation on Learning Human Language From Textual Corpora
Emily Cheng, Ryan Cotterell
Aug 27, 2026
cs.CL
Stochastic Estimation of Transduced Language Models
Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson, Samuel Kiegeland, Manuel de Prada Corral, et al.
Aug 13, 2026
cs.CL
LittleLearner: Language Models Under Pedagogically Controlled Knowledge Exposure
Fanfei Li, Jana Zeller, Manuel Prada-Corral, et al.
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Jul 29, 2026
cs.FL
A Compositional Theory of Causally Masked Transformers
Franz Nowak, Ryan Cotterell, Reda Boumasmoud
Jul 23, 2026
cs.CL
Surprisal Theory is Tautological (without Rational Grounding)
Ryan Cotterell
Jun 8, 2026
cs.CL
Causally Evaluating the Learnability of Formal Language Tasks
Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson, Anej Svete, Josef Valvoda, et al.
May 1, 2026
cs.CL
Characterizing the Expressivity of Local Attention in Transformers
Jiaoda Li, Ryan Cotterell
Apr 30, 2026
cs.CL
On the Proper Treatment of Units in Surprisal Theory
Samuel Kiegeland, Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson, Tim Vieira, et al.