Study: LLM In-Context Learning Stems from Parallel Structures in Pretraining Data

An ACL paper shows that LLM in-context learning depends on parallel structures in pretraining data; ablating such data removes the ICL ability.

2026-08-26 ~ 2026-08-26 · 2 related posts

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