Who Warmed the Archives? LLMs Overestimate Historical Warmth

arXiv:2609.37499 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-27 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-09-27

Updated: 2026-09-27

Code: https://github.com/dbmdz/berts

Terminology

• Transformer — 18× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Fine-Tuning — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Ablation study — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• F1 Score — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• DeepSeek-V4: Towards Highly Efficient Million-Token Context Intelligence
• Gemini 2.5: Pushing the Frontier with Advanced Reasoning, Multimodality, Long Context, and Next Generation Agentic Capabilities
• It's High Time: A Survey of Temporal Question Answering
• hmBERT: Historical Multilingual Language Models for Named Entity Recognition
• Can Language Models Represent the Past without Anachronism?
• Can LLMs Reconcile Knowledge Conflicts in Counterfactual Reasoning

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