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Co-LMLM: Continuous-query limited memory language models outperform vanilla LLMs on factual tasks at small scale
Researchers introduce CO-LMLM, a limited memory language model that externalizes factual knowledge to a knowledge base during pretraining and retrieves it at inference via continuous vector queries paired with human-readable text values. The approach removes prior restrictions to relational knowledge bases and Wikipedia-only data by introducing an annotation pipeline for arbitrary text. At 360M parameters, CO-LMLM achieves lower perplexity than models trained on 40x more data and SimpleQA factual performance comparable to GPT-4o mini and above Claude Sonnet 4.5, suggesting significant efficiency gains for factual grounding.
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