We find that plasticity loss happens both in nonstationary continual-learning environments but also in stationary…

We find that plasticity loss happens both in nonstationary continual-learning environments but also in stationary pretraining-like setups. This means that if you pretrain long enough your LLM will eventually lose the ability to adapt to new
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