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AI Research 75% 1 min readJun 24, 2026, 3:00 PM

A Three-Phase Factual Recall Circuit in Gemma-2B and Gemma-12B-IT

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Researchers identify a three-phase mechanism for factual recall in Google's Gemma-2B and Gemma-12B-IT models using activation patching, revealing how facts are stored and retrieved across transformer layers.

A Three-Phase Factual Recall Circuit in Gemma-2B and Gemma-12B-IT
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Activation patching reveals how facts are stored, routed, and read out across transformer layers, and why the residual stream does most of the work

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