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@article{menglong2026,
  title = {How Do Large Language Models Learn Concepts During Continual Pre-Training?},
  author = {Yao, Barry Menglong and Li, Sha and Yao, Yunzhi and Liu, Minqian and Xia, Zaishuo and Wang, Qifan and Huang, Lifu},
  journal = {Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
  year = {2026},
  month = {Jan},
  doi = {10.18653/2026.emnlp-main.2437},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.18653/2026.emnlp-main.2437},
}