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Understanding llm behaviors via compression: Data generation, knowledge acquisition and scaling laws

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Truth as a Compression Artifact in Language Model Training

cs.CL · 2026-03-12 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Controlled experiments show language models extract correct answers from contradictory data only when errors are structurally incoherent, supporting the hypothesis that gradient descent selects the most compressible answer cluster.

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  • Cram Less to Fit More: Training Data Pruning Improves Memorization of Facts cs.CL · 2026-04-09 · conditional · none · ref 66

    Loss-based pruning of training data to limit facts and flatten their frequency distribution enables a 110M-parameter GPT-2 model to memorize 1.3 times more entity facts than standard training, matching a 1.3B-parameter model on the full dataset.

  • Truth as a Compression Artifact in Language Model Training cs.CL · 2026-03-12 · unverdicted · none · ref 7

    Controlled experiments show language models extract correct answers from contradictory data only when errors are structurally incoherent, supporting the hypothesis that gradient descent selects the most compressible answer cluster.

  • Deep sequence models tend to memorize geometrically; it is unclear why cs.LG · 2025-10-30 · unverdicted · none · ref 134

    Deep sequence models develop geometric memory in embeddings that encodes novel global relationships, transforming l-fold composition tasks into 1-step navigation via a natural spectral bias connected to Node2Vec.