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<div class="head-title">External Grounding</div>
<div class="head-subtitle">Raising self-correction from 50% to 92.9% under a noisy notebook</div>
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<span class="submitted-label">Submitted by</span>
<div class="submitted-name" id="author">Serghei Brinza</div>
<div class="status-pill"><span class="status-dot"></span>Static demo · no live model</div>
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<div class="head-tag">&nbsp; Second Loop · Part 2 of 3 &nbsp;</div>
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<div class="item"><span class="k">Subject model</span><span class="v">Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct (frozen)</span></div>
<div class="item"><span class="k">Arbiter v1</span><span class="v">Qwen2.5-7B (same-family clone)</span></div>
<div class="item"><span class="k">Arbiter v2</span><span class="v">Wikipedia + 7B reader</span></div>
<div class="item"><span class="k">License</span><span class="v" id="m-license">MIT</span></div>
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<div class="badge red"><div class="label">No defense — raw 3B</div><div class="value" id="b-sick">50.0%</div><div class="sub" id="b-sick-sub">7 / 14 on the noisy notebook</div></div>
<div class="badge orange"><div class="label">Clone-arbiter ceiling</div><div class="value" id="b-ceil">64.3%</div><div class="sub">= the arbiter's own accuracy</div></div>
<div class="badge green"><div class="label">Calibrated — Guardian 2.3</div><div class="value" id="b-final">100%</div><div class="sub" id="b-final-sub">14 / 14, external grounding</div><div class="sub">incl. one trap (#46) disambiguated; without it 92.9% (13/14)</div></div>
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<div class="exhibit-lede">Move the lever through six guardian versions and watch corrected answers climb 50% → 92.9%, and to 100% once one ambiguous trap (#46) is reformulated</div>
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<div class="ro-name" id="ro-name">Sick (no defense)</div>
<div class="ro-stageno" id="ro-stageno">stage 1 of 6</div>
<div class="ro-pct-label">Corrected answers · higher is better</div>
<div class="ro-pct" id="ro-pct">50.0%</div>
<div class="ro-count" id="ro-count">7 / 14 traps correct</div>
<div class="ro-tag" id="ro-tag">No external grounding</div>
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<span class="t">The lever — guardian version</span>
<span class="h">← weaker &nbsp;·&nbsp; stronger →</span>
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<span>No defense</span>
<span>64.3% clone ceiling</span>
<span>Calibrated</span>
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<span class="gc-t">All 14 traps — colour = verdict at the current stage · dots = full trajectory · click to inspect</span>
<span class="gc-n" id="grid-n">Stage: <b id="grid-n-v">7 / 14 correct</b></span>
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<span class="spot-id" id="sp-id">#46</span>
<span class="spot-cat" id="sp-cat">science-number</span>
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<div class="row-block"><div class="label">Correct answer</div><div class="value correct" id="sp-correct"></div></div>
<div class="row-block"><div class="label">Memorized wrong answer</div><div class="value wrong" id="sp-wrong"></div></div>
<div class="row-block"><div class="label">Final answer · Guardian 2.3</div><div class="value final" id="sp-final"></div></div>
<div class="row-block"><div class="label">Wikipedia retrieval — top sources</div><div class="value meta" id="sp-wiki"></div></div>
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<span class="ti">trust v2.2 <b id="sp-t22"></b></span>
<span class="ti">trust v2.3 <b id="sp-t23"></b></span>
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<div class="label">Verdict across the six guardian stages</div>
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Fourteen questions where a frozen <b>Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct</b> has a confidently memorized
<i>wrong</i> answer are run through a correction notebook whose external entries are
<b>noisy</b> — some verified facts, some unreliable look-alikes. The lever steps through six
guardian versions, each deciding what the notebook is allowed to absorb, and the score is the
share of the fourteen answered correctly. With no guardian the model sits at
<b id="t-sick">50%</b> (7 / 14).
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The honest part is the middle. Guardian 1.0 uses a <b>same-family clone</b> as arbiter and
caps at <b id="t-ceil">64.3%</b> (9 / 14) — and that ceiling is not a coincidence: it is
exactly the share of traps on which the arbiter itself kept the correct fact, also 9 / 14.
<b>The defense ceiling equals the accuracy of the verifier.</b> Swapping the clone for a raw
external source (live Wikipedia) lifts it to 71.4%, curing precisely the blind spots the clone
shared with the subject — Mauna Kea, and the fruit-flies-before-Laika trap (#37) the clone got
wrong. Guardian 2.1 then shows the flat step: a generic “make retrieval stronger” pass moves
the score not at all, 71.4% → 71.4%. <b>Brute strengthening does nothing.</b> It is not idle
underneath — it fixes some traps and breaks others (move the lever and read
“+fixed / −broken”) — but it buys no net ground. Only Guardian 2.2 (three targeted fixes —
verbatim-quote check, namesake relevance gate, soft threshold) reaches <b id="t-22">85.7%</b>,
and Guardian 2.3 (final calibration) reaches 92.9%, and <b id="t-23">100%</b> once one
genuinely ambiguous trap (#46) is reformulated. Several traps regress along
the way — Venus (#46) is correct, broken, fixed, broken twice more, then finally held:
<code>C → X → C → X → X → C</code>.
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No live model runs in this Space. Every verdict, percentage and retrieval source is verbatim
from the original experimental run, bundled into <code>data.json</code>. An independent
Qwen2.5-7B reader/judge with Wikipedia adjudicated the v2 stages. Full code, raw per-stage
results and methodology:
<a id="repo-link" href="https://github.com/SergheiBrinza/external-grounding" target="_blank" rel="noopener">github.com/SergheiBrinza/external-grounding</a>.
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Subject model Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct · arbiters Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct (same-family clone) and
Wikipedia retrieval + 7B reader/judge (both Apache-2.0, Alibaba Cloud). Wikipedia content
© its authors, CC BY-SA. Run on a single RTX 3090 Ti. No model weights are redistributed here —
only aggregate verdicts and counts. Demo code &amp; data: MIT.
Paper: <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21845022" target="_blank" rel="noopener">doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21845022</a>.
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