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Artificial Epanorthosis: Why large language models overuse a classical rhetorical figure, and how to mitigate it
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- LLMs systematically overuse epanorthosis, a classical self-correction rhetorical figure, driven by training data and preference tuning rather than generation mechanics.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers building or fine-tuning language models who want output matching human rhetorical patterns across different writing genres and registers.
- Watch out
- The paper measures only one model family; mitigation techniques like LoRA adapters and instruction tuning show promise but require genre-specific calibration rather than outright elimination.
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