Frontier LLMs know more facts than they can recall

(research.google)

10 points | by MarcoDewey a day ago ago

2 comments

  • avaer a day ago ago

    The interesting claim is that frontier models are all fact-saturated.

    Gets me thinking whether this means that post-training inherently has a hard time to get rid of facts. That is, on a general corpus, can we reasonably prevent models from knowing/outputting the things they're not supposed to via post-training, or does that only add obstacles to the recall? Are all models inherently jailbreakable?

    • zhoBEENG 21 hours ago ago

      I would guess that all sufficiently capable models necessarily contain the information in question, regardless of what guardrails are on that information. I think this is a corollary to the Platonic Representation Hypothesis / model convergence.

      Would be curious to hear arguments against this.