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The Reversal Curse: LLMs trained on "A is B" fail to learn "B is A"
What happened
The Reversal Curse: LLMs trained on "A is B" fail to learn "B is A" is a developing story worth watching.
Why reversal matters
This development in reversal, curse, llms, trained, fail matters because it alters the baseline assumptions that Hacker News and others have been working from.
What led here
Looking back, Hacker News and others have reported on the conditions that made the reversal curse: llms trained on "a is b" fail to learn "b is a" possible.
Where this fits in Signal Ledger
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The editorial angle
The editorial lens here is simple: what does the reversal curse: llms trained on "a is b" fail to learn "b is a" make possible that was not possible before?
Source note
Hacker News reporting: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.12288