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Victorian-era LLM 'TimeCapsule' generates historically plausible text

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Researchers have developed TimeCapsule, a 1.2 billion parameter LLaMA-style model trained exclusively on Victorian-era texts from 1800-1875. This model aims to provide a historically isolated generative archive, demonstrating a 45.4% perplexity reduction compared to a GPT-2 baseline on Victorian prose. While larger contemporary models achieve lower perplexity, they lack temporal isolation. TimeCapsule can generate historically plausible explanations for modern concepts, and humanities scholars found it difficult to distinguish its output from genuine Victorian writing. AI

IMPACT This research explores methods for creating temporally isolated LLMs, potentially improving historical analysis and understanding of past ontologies.

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Victorian-era LLM 'TimeCapsule' generates historically plausible text

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Hayk Grigorian, Hamed Yaghoobian ·

    TimeCapsule: Generative Hallucination as a Method for Historical Sensemaking

    arXiv:2607.24750v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are temporally overexposed: trained on vast contemporary corpora, they encode present-day concepts that make them unreliable narrators of the past. We present TimeCapsule, a 1.2B-parameter LLaMA-style ca…

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