What Lies Beneath: Statistical Structure in Voynichese Revealed by Transformers
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(08-06-2025, 03:39 PM)quimqu wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The high percentage of conformity suggests that the generation process is strongly guided by structural constraints similar to those observed in actual Voynichese. While not all words match real entries from the manuscript, most invented forms remain within plausible morpho-phonological boundaries defined by the slot grammar. This supports the idea that the model is not producing random noise, but instead approximates a coherent internal system—whether artificial or natural.

Could you in theory test for non-conforming words already in the VM? Or i guess measure how much they break the internal rules? I wonder if it could be interesting to see where these pop up in the VM, if they are predominant in "labelese" or maybe in certain sections? Or certain scribes? To my knowledge this hasnt been done yet but I am probably wrong.
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RE: Unveiling the Hidden Syntax: Transformer Models Decode the Voynich Manuscript - by davidma - 08-06-2025, 05:44 PM

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