Repulsive Memories in LLMs

by Ari Holtzmanabout 16 hours ago
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I bet that for a given LLM X there are certain kinds of data Y drawn from distribution D that if you finetune X on Y then it will perform worse on D. It misgeneralizes, due to its priors, as we all do. Are there any interesting cases of this that don't feel totally adversarial and artificial?

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@misc{holtzman-repulsive-memories-in-2026,
  author = {Holtzman, Ari},
  title = {Repulsive Memories in LLMs},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://hypogenic.ai/ideahub/idea/vNApT4dvkxmJTkvyoMEX}
}

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