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Capability Provenance in Language Models: A Case Study in Social Reasoning
arXiv cs.CL — Computation and Language
Factual evidence
What the source reports
Researchers use gradient-based training-data attribution to map which pretraining document regions support social versus STEM reasoning in OLMo3-7B.
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Institutional assessment
So what
Data attribution methods are maturing, allowing risk teams to trace specific model capabilities directly to training data segments rather than treating models as black boxes.
Do what
Brief your model risk management team to monitor training-data attribution tools for future inclusion in LLM validation frameworks.