Tomas Pødenphant Lund

Friction-Guided Inference: Calibrating Correction Strategies and Abstention from Logprob Signals

Large language models frequently possess the knowledge needed to answer a question correctly yet commit to the wrong response. This paper presents friction-guided inference, a calibrated inference-time pipeline that uses the model's own logprob distribution — available at zero co...

Capacity Scaling of Encoding-Through-Loading: Application vs. Cloze Asymmetry Across Three Orders of Magnitude

Abstract. Large language models solve two differentiable task types on the same underlying knowledge base. Cloze retrieval saturates early (~90 % by 8 B parameters); application scales monotonically across three orders of magnitude. We document this asymmetry on a single invented...