Preprint
Oct 2026
Where RL Breaks: Localizing and Repairing Failures via Targeted Continued Pretraining
The use of the failure $n$-grams to retrieve text from the pretraining corpus and continue pretraining the base model on it before RL suggests that where RL fails is a cheap and effective signal for selecting pretraining data.
Xin-Yi Wang, Dan-Qi Chen
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