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Evidence-Type Competition: When Can Interventional Data Teach Language Models Causal Direction?
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Research shows language models trained on interventional causal data still copy observational correlations at inference time, contradicting assumptions about causal learning.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers building systems requiring reliable causal reasoning, especially when training data mixes observational and interventional examples.
- Watch out
- The findings use synthetic environments with Simpson's paradox; real-world applicability and scaling behavior beyond 0.93B parameters remain unclear.
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