Preprint
Aug 2026
LittleLearner: Language Models Under Pedagogically Controlled Knowledge Exposure
This work introduces LITTLECURRICULUM, a curated 88B-token pretraining corpus tailored to U.S. elementary school material, which yields LITTLELEARNER, a model with sufficient language competence for open-ended evaluation, yet with clear knowledge and capability boundaries mapped to interpretable curriculum guidelines.
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