Continual Learning of Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey

Published in ACM Computing Surveys, 2024

This comprehensive survey examines the landscape of continual learning approaches for large language models, providing a systematic analysis of current methodologies, identifying key challenges, and outlining future research directions.

Key Contributions

  • Systematic taxonomy of continual learning approaches for LLMs
  • Comprehensive analysis of catastrophic forgetting mitigation strategies
  • In-depth discussion of evaluation protocols and benchmarks
  • Identification of open challenges and future research directions

Status: Published in ACM Computing Surveys

Recommended citation: Haizhou Shi, Zihao Xu, Hengyi Wang, Weiyi Qin, Wenyuan Wang, Yibin Wang, Zifeng Wang, Sayna Ebrahimi, Hao Wang. "Continual Learning of Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey." ACM Computing Surveys.
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