@inproceedings{liao-etal-2026-aware, title = "{AWAR}e: Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting via Activation-Weighted Adaptive {RE}tention", author = "Liao, Juncheng and Lv, Jinfan and Wang, Guoming and Zheng, Juepeng and Xiao, Ling and Tang, Siliang", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.604/", pages = "13928--13944", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }