Disentangling generalization and memorization in large language models using chess

arXiv:2601.16823 · cs.CL, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-01-23 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-01-23

Updated: 2026-10-20

Terminology

• Generalization — 3× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Memorization — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes

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