Same time, same object, different value: probing a small language model for conflicts inside the context window

A pre-registered pilot on Qwen2.5-0.5B. A first protocol met all its criteria (AUROC 1.00), but post-hoc controls showed the result was lexical. A second protocol, trained on colours and materials and tested on sizes, an attribute never seen in training, met all its criteria again: AUROC 0.99 pooled, 0.98 against temporal update, with an increment beyond next-token entropy. The note reports a transferring direction that is sensitive to time and object. It does not claim a detector of contradiction as such. Frozen protocols with SHA-256 hashes, scripts and results are included.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-10-03
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23127023
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Natural Language Processing Techniques
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Same time, same object, different value: probing a small language model for conflicts inside the context window

Yanush Feshter
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Natural Language Processing Techniques
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Same time, same object, different value: probing a small language model for conflicts inside the context window

Yanush Feshter
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Abstract

A pre-registered pilot on Qwen2.5-0.5B. A first protocol met all its criteria (AUROC 1.00), but post-hoc controls showed the result was lexical. A second protocol, trained on colours and materials and tested on sizes, an attribute never seen in training, met all its criteria again: AUROC 0.99 pooled, 0.98 against temporal update, with an increment beyond next-token entropy. The note reports a transferring direction that is sensitive to time and object. It does not claim a detector of contradiction as such. Frozen protocols with SHA-256 hashes, scripts and results are included.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Natural Language Processing Techniques
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Same time, same object, different value: probing a small language model for conflicts inside the context window — Yanush Feshter · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (2026) | TGRS Research Map | TGRS