Attention heads in GPT-2 and Pythia-6.9B that promote factual output act by general copy suppression rather than selective counterfactual suppression, with domain-dependent effects that sharpen in larger models.
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Tracing Facts or just Copies? A critical investigation of the Competitions of Mechanisms in Large Language Models
Attention heads in GPT-2 and Pythia-6.9B that promote factual output act by general copy suppression rather than selective counterfactual suppression, with domain-dependent effects that sharpen in larger models.