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Huihan Li, Arnav Goel, Keyu He, Xiang Ren

The authors introduce MEMOed, a method for tracing culture-conditioned food and clothing outputs to relevant pretraining documents. It compares how strongly documents link a culture and generated symbol across cultures. In OLMo-7B, 97/110 food cultures and 45/110 clothing cultures had at least one memorized symbol; results are limited to this model and searchable Dolma data.

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