Jaap Jumelet Wins 2025 EurAI Dissertation Award for LLM Structure Research

banazir · x · 2026-08-20

Jaap Jumelet from the University of Amsterdam has won the 2025 EurAI Dissertation Award for his PhD thesis, "Finding Structure in Language Models". The work addresses whether LLMs truly capture linguistic grammar in a human-like way rather than just exploiting statistical patterns. Jumelet developed new interpretability methods and found that language models exhibit grammatical behaviors remarkably similar to humans, advancing theoretical understanding and AI transparency.

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