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Suppressed, Not Erased: A Representational Trace of Edited Facts Survives Even Weight-Free Knowledge Editing

Knowledge-editing benchmarks certify local correctness, whether an edited model produces the new fact on near-edit prompts but not how much of the…

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What happened

Knowledge-editing benchmarks certify local correctness, whether an edited model produces the new fact on near-edit prompts but not how much of the original fact remains decodable inside the model. We study residual knowledge directly with a linear trace probe: after editing a fact, we ask whether the original object is still recoverable from the model's hidden states. On GPT-2-XL, across three mechanistically distinct editors applied to 50 CounterFact edits, the original object remains linearly decodable well above chance after a successful edit (probe accuracy 0.96 for ROME, 0.86 for constrained fine-tuning, and 0.79 for the memory-based editor GRACE, against a chance level of 0.50; all edits reach 100% generation-based success).

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