In-context Continual Learning Assisted by an External Continual Learner (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing continual learning methods suffer from catastrophic forgetting (CF) . Existing methods rely on fine-tuning or adapting large language models (LLMs) |
| Approach: | They propose an approach that integrates an external continual learner (ECL) with ICL to enable scalable CL without catastrophic forgetting (CF). |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms existing baselines while maintaining high performance. |
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