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Learning Facts at Scale with Active Reading

14 days ago
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09494
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  • #Machine Learning
  • #Natural Language Processing
  • #Active Reading
  • LLMs store vast knowledge but recall is unreliable.
  • Active Reading framework trains models to study material with self-generated learning strategies.
  • Active Reading improves knowledge absorption significantly over vanilla finetuning.
  • Expert 8B models trained with Active Reading achieve high performance on benchmarks.
  • Meta WikiExpert-8B, a Wikipedia-expert model, outperforms larger models on factual QA.
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