The Instruction Tax on Factual Recall: Base Models Can Beat Their Instruction-Tuned Counterparts.

arXiv:2610.28407v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present our solution to the AKBC LM-KBC 2026 Shared Task, where we achieved a score of 0.6836 on the official leaderboard, more than double the baseline of 0.2964. This task requires generating all possible