Georgia Tech Study: Dialogue-heavy text boosts reasoning more than facts

allen_ai · x · 2026-08-22

Georgia Tech researchers used influence functions on OLMo 3 and its public Dolma 3 corpus to trace model abilities back to training data. They found that dialogue-rich, interpersonal writing had a higher impact on the model's reasoning performance than on factual knowledge answers.

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