https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2403.13799/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40193976urn:hackerpapers:mention:2403.13799:40193976Mon, 29 Apr 2024 03:02:35 GMT<p>Starting with the reversal curse is weird since there is a simple workaround to this, which is to identify entity names to keep them in their proper order, and then train on the reverse of the pretraining corpus: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13799v1 You can argue about how this doesn&#x27;t really say anything surprising since the reversal of &quot;A is B&quot; is literally &quot;B is A&quot;, but it&#x27;s weird to expect elegant solutions to all problems on all fronts all at once, and we do have an incredibly simple data generation process here.</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2403.13799/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CL