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Similar Models Learn Differently: Final-Window Pretraining Shapes Post-Training Beyond SFT

arXiv cs.AI ↗ · 2026-07-29 Cached

This paper demonstrates that the final window of pretraining significantly influences a model's response to post-training alignment, even when SFT performance is identical, suggesting that checkpoint evaluation should include the last training data.

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