fv-singular-plural-natural-text-portability
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Created 2026-08-25T02:58:41+00:00
The Singular-Plural function vector achieves 72–83% accuracy when injected into natural-language templates versus 0% baseline, confirming it encodes a generalizable function rather than a template-specific artifact.
Summary
The system has learned a reusable operation for handling singular versus plural forms, and it works across different sentence structures at 72-83% accuracy rather than just memorizing one specific template. This means the linguistic function is genuinely portable and can be applied to new phrasings the system hasn't seen before, rather than being tied to a single fixed format.