rome-prompt-extraction-learn-vs-recall-risk
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Created 2026-08-25T02:58:16+00:00
Fine-tuning on extraction prompts risks the model learning new facts rather than recalling existing ones (Zhong et al., 2021), motivating paraphrase-based benchmarks like ParaRel and COUNTERFACT.
Summary
When you fine-tune a model on prompts designed to pull out information, the model can sneakily absorb new or incorrect facts instead of simply recalling what it already knows, which means the fine-tuning step itself can corrupt the model's knowledge base. This is the core reason paraphrase-based evaluation benchmarks exist: they test whether the model genuinely retrieves a fact or just generates one because the prompt shape nudged it, so you can trust what the model "knows."