Chauvet (2024)

Memory GAPS: Would LLMs pass the Tulving Test?

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Abstract

The Tulving Test was designed to investigate memory performance in recognition and recall tasks. Its results help assess the relevance of the "Synergistic Ecphory Model" of memory and similar RK paradigms in human performance. This paper starts investigating whether the more than forty-year-old framework sheds some light on LLMs' acts of remembering.

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Chauvet, J. M. (2024). Memory GAPS: Would LLMs pass the Tulving Test?. arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.16505. https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2402.16505

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Context-Dependent Retrieval Memory Processes

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Not yet compared: an AI has no physical surroundings, but the context of a conversation can be matched or changed between learning and test, and Tulving's paradigms have been run on a model; these same-paradigm results still cannot be scored under the rules: the preprints (this one also ran Tulving's recognition-versus-recall test, with copy-cue recall 0.46 vs 0.69) give only human proportions from the 1970s-80s, with no sample size or statistical test, test one small model, and the rhyme gap partly reflects the model's weak rhyme knowledge rather than context matching