The 0.5B point of a study showing that synthetic-only training induces a verbatim
memorization leak in small models for ETL table-lineage extraction. It is the smallest scale
point and shows the worst leak: near-perfect synthetic precision (0.994) collapses to
0.243 on real GitHub scripts, with 37.4% of hallucinations being table names recited
verbatim from the synthetic training pool.
Same recipe as the 1.5B main model
(LoRA on Qwen2.5-Coder-Instruct, Python/Shell synthetic ETL scripts, zero real scripts); only the
base size differs.
This point's numbers (table-level, Convention A)
metric
synthetic held-out
real GitHub ETL
precision
0.994
0.243
direction accuracy
—
0.369
verbatim memorization leak
—
37.4%
Where it fits (scale curve)
scale
real precision
real direction
verbatim leak
0.5B (this)
0.243
0.369
37.4%
1.5B (main)
0.270
0.496
22.4%
3B (synthetic)
0.325
0.468
10.9%
3B (real corpus)
0.64
—
~0
Leak shrinks with scale (capacity), but only real training data closes the real-world gap
(bottom row). Direction confusion does not improve with size.
Intended use
✅ Reproducing / studying the synthetic-training memorization-leak failure at minimal scale.