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Pythia-70M fast-memory experiment

·2026.05.03 07:32

Key point

By adding forward-derived fast memory on top of a frozen Pythia-70M, one-shot symbolic recall was attempted.

Details

On top of a frozen Pythia-70M, forward-derived fast memory was added to experiment with one-shot symbolic recall without weight updates.

  • In the write step, with the correct answer given, the memory value was computed as E[target] - sum_over_tokens p(token | h) * E[token].
  • In the read step, the hidden geometry of the invented word was used as a key to find the memory via cosine top-1, and a correction vector was added at the answer position for greedy generation.
  • As an example, blicket was bound to red in game A and blue in game B to test different contextual meanings.

Exact match in the same context, based on both_top1, was write 1.000 and read 0.805, while plain was 0.008 and unrelated was 0.000.

This showed that even in a frozen open-weight transformer, limited one-shot binding is possible using external memory and output embedding geometry.

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