arXiv:2606. 24752v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The loss of plasticity - the ability of a network to learn new information after having already learned older information - is a fundamental challenge in creating artificial neural networks capable of continual learning.
By J. Fernando Hernandez-Garcia, Tom\'as Figliolia, Beren Millidge
arXiv:2409. 02228v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: When language models (LMs) are trained to forget (or "unlearn'') a skill, how precisely does their behavior change?
By Eric Zhang, Leshem Choshen, Jacob Andreas
arXiv:2606. 24998v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models are running out of high-quality training data, and even aggressively deduplicated corpora retain some amount of repetition.
By Jessica Chudnovsky, Joshua Kazdan, Noam Levi, Rylan Schaeffer, Yegor Denisov-Blanch, Bo He, Mehmet Donmez, Sanmi Koyejo, David Donoho
arXiv:2607. 14112v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are evaluated as though perfect reliability is achievable for any task given sufficient scale.
By Subhabrata Majumdar
arXiv:2605. 29548v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Larger models learn tasks smaller models do not.
By Jing Huang, Daniel Wurgaft, Rachit Bansal, Laura Ruis, Naomi Saphra, David Alvarez-Melis, Andrew Kyle Lampinen, Christopher Potts, Ekdeep Singh Lubana
arXiv:2602. 09234v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Continual learning has become a trending topic in machine learning.
By Tianhui Liu, Lili Mou