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Catastrophic forgetting — Glossary

When fine-tuning erases useful behaviors the base model previously had.

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Mitigate with mixed training data, parameter-efficient methods, and regression eval suites covering general skills plus the specialty task.

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Fine-Tuning — Fine-tuning adapts a pretrained model to a target task, domain, or style by continuing training on curated examples—often with parameter-efficient methods.

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