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As models scale and converge toward an accurate model of reality, hallucinations should decrease with scale

Implication of PRH for LLM hallucination

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The Platonic Representation Hypothesis

(2024) · Minyoung Huh · Brian Cheung · Tongzhou Wang · Phillip Isola

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Hallucination in LLMs
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Problem cited as a shortcoming of current LLMs; PRH predicts hallucinations should decrease with scale

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Neural networks, trained with different objectives on different data and modalities, are converging to a shared statistical model of reality in their representation spaces.
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The paper's central thesis statement, presented prominently after the abstract

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