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What causes catastrophic forgetting during the fine-tuning of open-source language models, and how can I prevent my model from losing its general reasoning capabilities?

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What causes catastrophic forgetting during the fine-tuning of open-source language models, and how can I prevent my model from losing its general reasoning capabilities?
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catastrophic forgetting large language model fine-tuning causes mitigation replay regularization LoRA research papersGoogle ↗
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continual learning language models catastrophic forgetting gradient interference experience replay elastic weight consolidation surveyGoogle ↗
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catastrophic forgetting large language model fine-tuning causes mitigation replay regularization LoRA research papers Google ↗
continual learning language models catastrophic forgetting gradient interference experience replay elastic weight consolidation survey Google ↗

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catastrophic forgetting large language model fine-tuning causes mitigation replay regularization LoRA research papers
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continual learning language models catastrophic forgetting gradient interference experience replay elastic weight consolidation survey
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