Olmo researcher here. The point of OlmoTrace is not no attribute the entire response to one document in the training data—that’s not how language models “acquire” knowledge, and finding a single or few documents as support for an answer is impossible.

The point of OlmoTrace is to show that fragments of model response are influenced by its training data. sometimes is how specific adjectives are used together in way that seem unnatural to us, but are combination of training data (ask for a movie review!)

A favorite example of mine is asking to tell a joke or ask for a random number, because strangely all LLMs return the same joke or number. Well with OlmoTrace, you can see which docs in the training data contain the super common response!

hope this helps