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Catastrophic Forgetting

Catastrophic forgetting is the loss of previously learned behavior when a model is trained on new data or tasks.

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Updates optimized for the new distribution can overwrite parameters important to older capabilities. Mixing old data, regularizing changes, replay, or modular adaptation can help preserve prior behavior.

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Knowledge DistillationCurriculum LearningInstruction TuningDirect Preference OptimizationReinforcement Learning from Human FeedbackHyperparameter Tuning

Where Catastrophic Forgetting comes up

  • Adaption’s AutoScientist: Automating the Frontier of Model Training and Alignment