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Molecular Déjà Vu: Digit-Level Retrieval of Published Values in Frontier Language Models
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Researchers found that frontier language models frequently retrieve verbatim published molecular property values rather than predicting them, affecting benchmark accuracy assessment.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers evaluating LLM performance on molecular property prediction tasks and those designing molecular benchmarks for model assessment.
- Watch out
- Retrieval rates vary significantly by dataset and reasoning level; suppressing retrieval reveals that actual predictive capability differs from apparent performance.
- llm
- language model
- reasoning
- retrieval
- eval
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