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What is catastrophic forgetting, and how do you prevent it when fine-tuning or continually training an LLM?

Fine-tune a model on your domain and it can forget how to do everything else. The signal is explaining why shared weights cause it and naming the concrete mitigations that all reduce to one principle.

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Fine-tune a model on your domain and it can forget how to do everything else. The signal is explaining why shared weights cause it and naming the concrete mitigations that all reduce to one principle.

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