Sharpness-aware pretraining and related flat-minima interventions reduce catastrophic forgetting by up to 80% after post-training across 20M-150M models and by 31-40% at 1B scale.
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A one-parameter scaling law models excess loss from data repetition as an additive overfitting penalty, recommending model capacity increases over excessive repetition and showing that strong weight decay reduces the penalty coefficient by ~70%.
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Sharpness-Aware Pretraining Mitigates Catastrophic Forgetting
Sharpness-aware pretraining and related flat-minima interventions reduce catastrophic forgetting by up to 80% after post-training across 20M-150M models and by 31-40% at 1B scale.
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Prescriptive Scaling Laws for Data Constrained Training
A one-parameter scaling law models excess loss from data repetition as an additive overfitting penalty, recommending model capacity increases over excessive repetition and showing that strong weight decay reduces the penalty coefficient by ~70%.