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Burns and colleagues: contrast-consistent search for latent model knowledge

Contribution grade

Language-model representation analysis · Human-designed model analysis or safeguard method

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What changed

Learned probes from internal model representations using consistency constraints between contrasting statements rather than truth labels, investigating whether latent answer information can be recovered when prompted outputs are unreliable.

Scientific scope

Learned probes from internal model representations using consistency constraints between contrasting statements rather than truth labels, investigating whether latent answer information can be recovered when prompted outputs are unreliable. The representation may contain useful predictive information without encoding a universal truth variable. Reported evaluation resolves the binary label orientation using labels; an unlabeled orientation proposal is not the same as a demonstrated label-free truth oracle.

Evidence

The linked original works support the scoped statement and contribution attribution. WRS has not independently replayed experiments or reconstructed a full mathematical proof. The representation may contain useful predictive information without encoding a universal truth variable. Reported evaluation resolves the binary label orientation using labels; an unlabeled orientation proposal is not the same as a demonstrated label-free truth oracle.

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Provisional WRS assessment, edition 2026-10-23.1. Independent expert calibration is pending. This grade does not certify correctness or assign ownership.

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