For rare or domain-specific facts, the statistical signal in large language models is weak, resulting in representations that are sparse, blurry, and susceptible to interference from similar but different facts.

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• Person: M. Brenndoerfer Organization: mbrenndoerfer.com
  Hallucination Causes: Why Language Models Fabricate Facts

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• Hallucination Causes: Why Language Models Fabricate Facts mbrenndoerfer.com M. Brenndoerfer · mbrenndoerfer.com via serper

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• Large Language Models concept