rome-second-moment-100k-all-wikipedia-tokens
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Created 2026-08-25T02:58:16+00:00
ROME's second moment statistics C ∝ E[kk^T] are computed from 100,000 hidden-state vectors sampled from all Wikipedia text tokens (not just subject tokens), stored at float32 precision.
Summary
The covariance matrix that ROME uses to find the minimal edit is built from 100,000 hidden-state vectors drawn across the entire Wikipedia corpus rather than a narrow set of subject-related tokens, so the geometry it captures reflects how the model represents all of language generally. This means the edit will be stable and well-conditioned, but it is anchored to broad distributional patterns rather than being specialized to the particular fact being rewritten, which trades some targeted precision for robustness against collinearity and rank-deficiency problems.