MIITA: Memory-Induced Inference-Time Adaptation for Continual Learning with Small Language Models

Abstract

arXiv:2607.22556v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual learning (CL) is essential for small language models (SLMs) to adapt to evolving real-world needs in resource-constrained deployments. However, directly updating their limited parameter space causes catastrophic forgetting. While memory-based methods naturally address this by decoupling knowledge retention from parameters, existing approaches designed for large language models (LLMs) rely on abundant storage and strong in-context reasonin