Rethinking Long Context Generation from the Continual Learning Perspective (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle with processing long contexts due to the limited context window. |
| Approach: | They propose to combine a limited context window with a continual learning perspective to improve LLMs' efficiency in processing long contexts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models improve the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) by integrating learning strategies with existing approaches. |
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