arXiv AI By Gianluca Barmina, Peter Schneider-Kamp, Lukas Galke Poech

LLMs Can Leak Training Data But Do They Want To? Evaluating Memorization Propensity in LLMs

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The paper introduces PropMe, a framework that evaluates both the capability of large language models (LLMs) to reproduce training data via prefix attacks and their natural propensity to do so without adversarial prompting. Using SimpleTrace to compare every generation against the full indexed training corpus, the authors test models such as Comma, DFM Decoder, and OLMo3 32B across datasets like Common Pile, Dynaword, and Dolma3. Results show that natural sentence prompts produce less training text than prefix attacks, but unprompted or single-word prompts can reproduce as much or more, often involving duplicated licenses, code, and templates; continual pre‑training only modestly reduces verbatim reproduction.

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