arXiv Machine Learning

Memoir: Should a Model Write to Its Memory While It Thinks?

arXiv:2607. 20792v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Memoir combines per-sample fast memory, shared slow parameters, variable-depth latent recurrence, and a future-latent energy objective.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 20

Learned, Then Lost: A Measured Single-Example Counterfactual in Pre-training

The study measured the impact of a single training example on a GPT‑2 model by running 24 counterfactual experiments. 32 models were trained from scratch on OpenWebText, and at a specific training step a single batch row was replaced with a 194‑token passage under three conditions (fluent prose, fabricated subject, random characters) or left unchanged. Results showed that the passage was learned from one exposure and decayed, with measurable differences in cross‑entropy up to 50 steps after injection but no lasting effect at the final step.

By Zachary Speck, Asa Shepard