Cultural Knowledge Suppressed Within Model Parameters
simi_97k · x · 2026-07-12
The author stated that this work further confirms that model parameters do contain vast knowledge about different cultures, but it is suppressed by MLE during default generation.
They also mentioned that analyzing specific features and observing how the same prompt changes under different steering is fascinating in its own right.
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