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Predictable Confabulations: Factual Recall by LLMs Scales with Model Size and Topic Frequency

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Main Authors:	Smith, Matthew L., Shock, Jonathan P., Segun, Samuel T., Olatunji, Iyiola E., Bissyandé, Tegawendé F.
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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