Continual Learning for Sequential Personalization of Small Language Models: A Stability Monitoring Analysis

arXiv:2606.27634v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Small Language Models (SLMs) are increasingly being considered for deployment on edge devices such as laptops, enabling private, low-latency, and locally personalized applications. However, personalization requires models to adapt over time to evolving user- or task-specific data, placing them in a continual learning setting. This creates the risk of catastrophic forgetting, where learning new information degrades performance on previously learned ...