{
  "id": 827649,
  "title": "LittleLearner: Language Models Under Pedagogically Controlled Knowledge Exposure",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/littlelearner-language-models-under-pedagogically-controlled",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-13T17:56:12.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13545v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Modern language models are trained on heterogeneous web-scale text corpora. Consequently, studying knowledge and skill acquisition is difficult, as prior exposure to related content is hard to characterize. To address this challenge, we introduce LITTLECURRICULUM, a curated 88B-token pretraining corpus tailored to U.S. elementary school material, explicitly excluding concepts, facts, and…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}