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New LLM 'Kongzi' enhances historical accuracy with fact-enhancement

Researchers have developed Kongzi, a novel large language model specifically designed for historical understanding and reasoning. This model integrates continued pre-training on historical texts with supervised fine-tuning and a unique fact-enhanced reinforcement learning approach. Kongzi's factuality is improved by comparing extracted entities and relations from its responses against historical knowledge graphs. Evaluations show that the 7-billion parameter version of Kongzi achieves high historical accuracy ratings, outperforming other compared models, though it still lags behind top baselines on a specific benchmark. AI

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New LLM 'Kongzi' enhances historical accuracy with fact-enhancement

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Jiashu Yang, Ningning Wang, Yian Zhao, Chaoran Feng, Junjia Du, Hao Pang, Miao Yu, Xuxin Cheng ·

    Kongzi: A Historical Large Language Model with Fact Enhancement

    arXiv:2504.09488v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) can exhibit factual inaccuracies during long-chain reasoning or under misleading prompts, limiting their reliability in historical analysis. We propose Kongzi, a language model for historical underst…