5B LittleLearner trained only on K-5 material to test LLM limits
MatthewMcAteer0 · x · 2026-08-16
Researchers trained a 5B parameter model named LittleLearner from scratch using a corpus restricted to K-5 material (LittleCurriculum) to investigate how LLMs perform when their knowledge depth is constrained.
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