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Wieland Brendel

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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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