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Repeated Sequences Reveal Gaps between Large Language Models and Natural Language
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Evaluating whether large language models (LLMs) capture the structureof natural language beyond local fluency remains an open challenge.Existing evaluation methods, largely based on task performance orshort-context behavior, provide limited insight into the long-rangestatistical organization of generated text.We propose a complementary evaluation framework based on repeatedsubsequences. By analyzing their distribution across scales andrelating it to higher-order Rényi entropies, we probe how textsreuse previously established structure under finite-lengthconditions. Experiments on human-written texts and length-matchedGPT-generated texts show that,while power-law models can describerestricted ranges of block length, the observed entropy growth isoften equally or better characterized by logarithmic–power forms.Across datasets, natural language exhibits stable entropy-growthpatterns over accessible ranges, with consistent average behavior despite variability across individual texts. In contrast,GPT-generated texts show systematic and statistically significantshifts in estimated exponents with model size.These results demonstrate that repeated-subsequence entropyprovides a quantitative structural diagnostic that revealssystematic differences in long-range organization,distinguishing natural language from state-of-the-art LLM outputsbeyond surface-level fluency.
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Repeated Sequences Reveal Gaps between Large Language Models and Natural Language
Evaluating whether large language models (LLMs) capture the structureof natural language beyond local fluency remains an open challenge.Existing evaluation methods, largely based on task performance orshort-context behavior, provide limited insight into the long-rangestatistical organization of generated text.We propose a complementary evaluation framework based on repeatedsubsequences. By analyzing their distribution across scales andrelating it to higher-order Rényi entropies, we probe how textsreuse previously established structure under finite-lengthconditions. Experiments on human-written texts and length-matchedGPT-generated texts show that,while power-law models can describerestricted ranges of block length, the observed entropy growth isoften equally or better characterized by logarithmic–power forms.Across datasets, natural language exhibits stable entropy-growthpatterns over accessible ranges, with consistent average behavior despite variability across individual texts. In contrast,GPT-generated texts show systematic and statistically significantshifts in estimated exponents with model size.These results demonstrate that repeated-subsequence entropyprovides a quantitative structural diagnostic that revealssystematic differences in long-range organization,distinguishing natural language from state-of-the-art LLM outputsbeyond surface-level fluency.
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