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negation

confirmedPython · CPUModel behavior & reasoningJuly 6, 2026

the question

Can a small model handle 'which is NOT a fruit'?

what came out

Negation is capability-gated. A single 'not' halves the 0.5B (0.87->0.50) while the 1.5B is immune (1.00) -- until compound 'neither/nor' negation drops the 1.5B to 0.63 and the 0.5B to chance. Exact oracle, independent gold re-derivation.

method & receipts

  • Result: confirmed
  • Reproducible one script re-runs the whole thing from scratch.
  • Independently reviewed an adversarial review pass, kept in the repo.
  • Machine-readable claims every reported number, in a checkable file.
  • Tested — a correctness/benchmark suite ships alongside the code.

→ read the code and re-run it

github.com/v-code01/negation