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The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models Forget

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Stable Diffusion revolutionised image creation from descriptive text. GPT-2, GPT-3(.5) and GPT-4 demonstrated astonishing performance across a variety of language tasks. ChatGPT introduced such language models to the general public. It is now clear that large language models (LLMs) are here to stay, and will bring about drastic change in the whole ecosystem of online text and images. In this paper we consider what the future might hold. What will happen to GPT-{n} once LLMs contribute much of the language found online? We find that use of model-generated content in training causes irreversible defects in the resulting models, where tails of the original content distribution disappear. We refer to this effect as Model Collapse and show that it can occur in Variational Autoencoders, Gaussian Mixture Models and LLMs. We build theoretical intuition behind the phenomenon and portray its ubiquity amongst all learned generative models. We demonstrate that it has to be taken seriously if we are to sustain the benefits of training from large-scale data scraped from the web. Indeed, the value of data collected about genuine human interactions with systems will be increasingly valuable in the presence of content generated by LLMs in data crawled from the Internet.

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When Does Model Collapse Occur in Structured Interactive Learning?

cs.LG · 2026-05-19 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

Model collapse occurs in structured interactive learning if and only if the directed interaction graph satisfies a specific topological condition, with finite-sample guarantees for linear regression and asymptotic results for M-estimators.

Base Models Look Human To AI Detectors

cs.CL · 2026-05-19 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

Base model text evades AI detectors better than instruction-tuned text, and the HIP method strengthens this trade-off across model sizes.

EmbGen: Teaching with Reassembled Corpora

cs.CL · 2026-05-19 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

EmbGen creates synthetic QA data by entity decomposition, embedding-based reassembly into clusters, and multi-level sampling with cluster-specific prompts, yielding up to 88.9% higher Binary Accuracy than baselines on heterogeneous datasets under fixed token budgets.

Annotations Mitigate Post-Training Mode Collapse

cs.CL · 2026-05-11 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Annotation-anchored training reduces semantic diversity collapse in post-trained language models by a factor of six compared to standard supervised fine-tuning while preserving instruction-following and improving with scale.

HuatuoGPT-o1, Towards Medical Complex Reasoning with LLMs

cs.CL · 2024-12-25 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

HuatuoGPT-o1 achieves superior medical complex reasoning by using a verifier to curate reasoning trajectories for fine-tuning and then applying RL with verifier-based rewards.

Reinforced Self-Training (ReST) for Language Modeling

cs.CL · 2023-08-17 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

ReST improves LLM translation quality on benchmarks via offline RL on self-generated data, achieving gains in a compute-efficient way compared to typical RLHF.

Textbooks Are All You Need

cs.CL · 2023-06-20 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

A 1.3B-parameter code model trained on 7B tokens of curated textbook and synthetic data achieves 50.6% on HumanEval, indicating data quality can enable strong performance at small scale.

Trust Region On-Policy Distillation

cs.LG · 2026-05-31 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

TrOPD stabilizes on-policy distillation for LLMs with trust-region learning, outlier estimation, and off-policy guidance, outperforming prior OPD methods on reasoning and code benchmarks.

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