creativity-honesty-and-designed-forgetting-emerge-in-small-hyperbolic-language-models-19b75cc3·1 events·first seen Aliases: Creativity, honesty and designed forgetting emerge in small hyperbolic language models
Researchers present a suite of three small language models (146M to 3B parameters) built on a hyperbolic geometric substrate, targeting trustworthy companion AI. A 146M behavioral auditor achieves 90.7% binary-compliance accuracy and outperforms a frontier zero-shot judge (AUROC 0.804 vs 0.721) in detecting sycophancy, dependence-fostering, and confabulated memories across unseen generator families. A creative frame-seeder wins 100% of 311 pairwise comparisons over prompting baselines, and a memory OS implements exponential decay-based 'designed forgetting.' The work proposes a small-model alternative to frontier-scale approaches for companion AI safety and personalization.