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Unpublished Negative Results Limit What LLMs Learn From Literature

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Andrew Beam@AndrewLBeam#1746inAI

Stark visual reminder of why just training models on the published literature will only get you so far

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Andrew Beam@AndrewLBeam

Even the "positive" findings that get published are problematic: https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124

Oded Rechavi@OdedRechavi

Most experiments fail, and negative results rarely get published. This means LLMs are unaware of the outcomes of most experiments.

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