chameleon-five-step-framework

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The LLM knowledge conflict framework consists of 5 steps: parametric memory elicitation, counter-memory construction, entailment checking (DeBERTa-V2), answer consistency verification, and evidence preference evaluation in multiple-choice format.

Summary

This defines the exact five-step pipeline the system follows whenever an LLM's internal knowledge clashes with new evidence: surface what the model "remembers," build the conflicting piece, check logical entailment with DeBERTa-V2, verify the answer is self-consistent, and finally pick which evidence to trust in a multiple-choice comparison. In practice, it means conflict resolution is a fixed procedure rather than an ad-hoc judgment, so the system always reasons through the same stages before deciding which information wins.