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New ECHO framework combats catastrophic forgetting in LLMs

Researchers have introduced Entropic Control for Homeostatic Optimization (ECHO), a new framework designed to combat catastrophic forgetting in large language models during supervised fine-tuning. ECHO utilizes output entropy as a real-time proxy to detect forgetting risks, bypassing the need for costly reference-model inferences. An elastic controller then dynamically adjusts the gradient weight of replay data based on deviations from a pre-trained entropic equilibrium. Evaluations on models ranging from 0.6B to 9B parameters show ECHO improves the plasticity-stability trade-off and maintains robustness across different data mixing ratios. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more stable and efficient LLM training by mitigating catastrophic forgetting.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Shangxi Wu, Xiaorong Yan, Xiaojun Meng, Yuxiang Zhang, Jiansheng Wei ·

    Entropic Control for Homeostatic Optimization: Pre-empting Catastrophic Forgetting via Dynamic Feedback

    arXiv:2610.34182v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) of LLMs suffers from catastrophic forgetting, and prevailing mitigation strategies struggle to reconcile the plasticity-stability dilemma. To address this, we propose Entropic Control for Homeostatic O…