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Shankar Padmanabhan

3 accepted papers

2026

Context Distillation Retains Post-Training Capabilities in Continually Trained LMs

ICML 2026spotlight

Post-training endows pretrained LLMs with a variety of desirable skills, such as instruction-following, reasoning, and others. However, these post-trained LLMs only encode knowledge up to a cut-off date, necessitating continual adaptation. Unfortunately, existing solutions cannot effectively learn n…

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2023

Can LMs Learn New Entities from Descriptions? Challenges in Propagating Injected Knowledge

ACL 2023long

Pre-trained language models (LMs) are used for knowledge intensive tasks like question answering, but their knowledge gets continuously outdated as the world changes. Prior work has studied targeted updates to LMs, injecting individual facts and evaluating whether the model learns these facts while…

2023

Propagating Knowledge Updates to LMs Through Distillation

NeurIPS 2023poster

Modern language models have the capacity to store and use immense amounts of knowledge about real-world entities, but it remains unclear how to update such knowledge stored in model parameters. While prior methods for updating knowledge in LMs successfully inject atomic facts, updated LMs fail to ma…