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Natural Ungrokking: Asymmetric Control of Which Rules Survive Pretraining
arXiv:2606.26050v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Midway through an ordinary pretraining run, a small language model learns the pronoun-gender rule: cued with a girl's name ("Sue cried because"), it resolves the next pronoun to she, generalizing to held-out probes (0.94 by step 925). By step 3,500 the same model scores