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Understanding Reasoning from Pretraining to Post-Training
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Researchers studied how pretraining choices affect reinforcement learning performance in language models using chess and math as controlled testbeds.
- Why it matters
- Engineers optimizing LLM training pipelines need to understand how pretraining investments translate to post-training RL gains on reasoning tasks.
- Watch out
- Findings use chess and math domains as proxies; generalization to broader reasoning tasks and real-world LLM scales remains unclear.
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