Learning a Fact Is Not Learning How to Retrieve It

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arXiv:2610.03251v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A model trained on "The capital of X is Y" may produce "Y" after "The capital of X is" but fail after "The capital of X:". We call these different ways of eliciting the same fact request forms. To separate learning a fact from retrieving it, we train two models in two stages. In the first stage (request-form training), one model sees each fact in five forms and the other sees the same facts only as statements. In the second stage (target-fact training), both receive identical training on new facts, all as statements. Both then retrieve the new fa