chameleon-closed-book-qa-elicitation
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Parametric memory elicitation uses closed-book QA where the LLM is prompted to answer a question and explain its reasoning, with the explanation constituting the parametric memory.
Summary
When you ask a language model a question without giving it any external context and then ask it to walk through its reasoning, the explanation it produces is essentially a direct readout of what knowledge is baked into its weights. This matters because it gives us a practical, low-tech way to inspect what the model actually remembers internally, treating its own self-explanation as the evidence rather than relying on external retrieval or benchmarks.