Complementary Roles of Activation and Parametric Memory in Few-Shot Learning

arXiv:2609.28250 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-23 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-23

Updated: 2026-09-23

Terminology

• Adaptation — 10× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 8× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Transformer — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Few-Shot Learning — 4× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• In-Context Learning — 4× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• KV cache — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distribution Shift — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes

Sources

• Rethinking Memory in LLM based Agents: Representations, Operations, and Emerging Topics
• A Survey on the Memory Mechanism of Large Language Model based Agents
• Memory in Large Language Models: Mechanisms, Evaluation and Evolution
• Knowledge Conflicts for LLMs: A Survey
• Titans: Learning to Memorize at Test Time
• Qwen3 Technical Report
• Towards a Mechanistic Understanding of Propositional Logical Reasoning in Large Language Models
• Qwen-Scope: Turning Sparse Features into Development Tools for Large Language Models

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