Learning an Anchored Prompt Space for Continual Adaptation of Large Language Models

arXiv:2609.32499 · cs.CL, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-26 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-26

Updated: 2026-09-26

Code: https://github.com/rG223/LAPS

Terminology

• Adaptation — 86× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 27× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Continual Learning — 27× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distillation — 19× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 18× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Bayesian Optimization — 17× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 14× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Self-distillation — 9× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Benchmark — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 6× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Ablation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Catastrophic Forgetting — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Robustness — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Instruction Tuning — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Knowledge Distillation — 2× in this paper · explained in 11 episodes
• Bayesian Optimization (BO) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• F1 Score — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Generative Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Online Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Parameter Efficiency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Principal Component Analysis — 1× in this paper
• Principal Component Analysis (PCA) — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Transferability — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Two-Stage Optimization — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• On-Policy Replay for Continual Supervised Fine-Tuning
• TRACE: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Continual Learning in Large Language Models
• Qwen3 Technical Report

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