What is parametric knowledge?

Parametric knowledge is what the model knows from training, frozen at the moment training stopped.

Navid Moazzezby Navid MoazzezUpdated Sept. 12, 20261 min read
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It is recalled, not looked up, and it cannot tell you how confident it should be.

The counterpart is what it can read right now, which is where anything current has to come from.