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Sleep framework: A new way for LLMs to retain knowledge in continual learning


October 27, 2026 Ali Behrouz and Vahab Mirrokni, Google Research We introduce a sleep phase in continual learning, enabling large language models to continuously integrate new facts and enhance reasoning while mitigating catastrophic forgetting or static knowledge cutoffs. Modern LLMs achieve impressive performance via pre-training and in-context learning (ICL).

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