Author name: Hanbing Liu, Lang Cao, Yang Li

RAG or Learning? Understanding the Limits of LLM Adaptation under Continuous Knowledge Drift in the Real World

Hanbing Liu, Lang Cao, Yang Li / April 16, 2026

arXiv:2604.05096v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) acquire most of their knowledge during pretraining, which ties them to a fixed snapshot of the world and makes adaptation to continuously evolving knowledge challenging. …

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RAG or Learning? Understanding the Limits of LLM Adaptation under Continuous Knowledge Drift in the Real World

Hanbing Liu, Lang Cao, Yang Li / April 8, 2026

arXiv:2604.05096v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) acquire most of their knowledge during pretraining, which ties them to a fixed snapshot of the world and makes adaptation to continuously evolving knowledge challenging. As f…