Tatsuki Kuribayashi (栗林樹生)

My Japanese name, 栗林樹生, contains several kanji related to trees (木). My parents run a flower shop and love gardening, and, true to my name, I have also become fascinated by trees—linguistic ones!

My research lies at the intersection of natural language processing and cognitive science. I study incremental sentence processing, discourse processing, and the reasoning processes underlying language use in humans and machines.
Portrait of Tatsuki Kuribayashi

Publications

Selected Publications

  • Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Alex Warstadt, Yohei Oseki, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox.
    "Dual Alignment Between Language Model Layers and Human Sentence Processing." ACL 2026 (main long), pp. 46207-46223, 2026/07. [paper]
  • Tianyang Xu, Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Yohei Oseki, Ryan Cotterell, Alex Warstadt.
    "Can Language Models Learn Typologically Implausible Languages?"
    Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), 14: pp. 588-611, 2026. [paper]
  • Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Yohei Oseki, Souhaib Ben Taieb, Kentaro Inui, Timothy Baldwin.
    "Large Language Models Are Human-Like Internally." TACL, 13: pp. 1743-1766, 2025/12. [paper]
  • Mengyu Ye, Jun Suzuki, Tatsuro Inaba, Tatsuki Kuribayashi.
    "Transformer Key-Value Memories Are Nearly as Interpretable as Sparse Autoencoders." NeurIPS 2025, 2025/12. [paper]
  • *Nadine El-Naggar, *Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Ted Briscoe. (* equal contribution)
    "Which Word Orders Facilitate Length Generalization in LMs? An Investigation with GCG-Based Artificial Languages." EMNLP 2025, pp. 35599-35613, 2025/11. [paper]
  • Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Ryo Ueda, Ryo Yoshida, Yohei Oseki, Ted Briscoe, Timothy Baldwin.
    "Emergent Word Order Universals from Cognitively-Motivated Language Models." ACL 2024, pp. 14522-14543, 2024/08. [paper]
  • Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Yohei Oseki, Ana Brassard, Kentaro Inui.
    "Context Limitations Make Neural Language Models More Human-Like." EMNLP 2022, pp. 10421-10436, 2022/12. [paper]
  • Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Yohei Oseki, Takumi Ito, Ryo Yoshida, Masayuki Asahara, Kentaro Inui.
    "Lower Perplexity is Not Always Human-Like." ACL 2021, pp. 5203-5217, 2021/08. [paper]
  • *Takumi Ito, *Tatsuki Kuribayashi, *Masatoshi Hidaka, Jun Suzuki, Kentaro Inui. (* equal contribution)
    "Langsmith: An Interactive Academic Text Revision System." EMNLP 2020 System Demonstrations, pp. 216-226, 2020/11. [paper]