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09:08
2026-08-16
sourcefeed.dev
artificial-intelligence

Pretraining Sets a Ceiling Post-Training Can't Break

A new controlled study from the LittleLearner project, led by researchers including Ryan Cotterell of ETH Zürich and Wieland Brendel of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, found that pos…

07:37
2026-08-16
littlelearner-ll.github.io
large-language-models

What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?

Researchers at the University of Zurich released LittleLearner, a family of language models (0.6B, 1.3B, and 5B parameters) trained from scratch on LittleCurriculum, an 88B-token corpus filtered to U.…

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large language models 2 ai research 2 artificial intelligence 1 machine learning 1