@inproceedings{jiang-etal-2026-beyond, title = "Beyond Scaling: Measuring and Predicting the Upper Bound of Knowledge Retention in Language Model Pre-Training", author = "Jiang, Changhao and Zhang, Ming and Cao, Yifei and Ye, Junjie and Fan, Xiaoran and Dou, Shihan and Xi, Zhiheng and Sun, Jiajun and Dong, Yi and Shen, Yujiong and Tong, Jingqi and Fan, Baoyu and Gui, Tao and Zhang, Qi and Huang, Xuanjing", editor = "Liakata, Maria and Moreira, Viviane P. and Zhang, Jiajun and Jurgens, David", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)", month = jul, year = "2026", address = "San Diego, California, United States", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.acl-long.1214/", pages = "26377--26396", ISBN = "979-8-89176-390-6" }