Entity Tracking Across State Changes in Language Models

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Entity Tracking Across State Changes in Language Models
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The paper tests language models on their ability to track entities as states evolve within textual scenarios.

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U.S. advantages in foundational model capabilities receive no evaluation.

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Model transparency issues are not the focus of the entity tracking tests.

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