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Form, Not Content? A Preregistered, Placebo-Controlled Evaluation of Learned Error-Conditioned Self-Repair Through Prompts and Weights in Frozen Small Code Models
The study introduces a methodology called PoPE (Popperian Placebo-controlled Evaluation) to measure whether a frozen small code language model (LLM) can use evidence that falsifies its own generated code. The study…
