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Learning to Remember: How Early Data Exposure Protects Post-Trained Capabilities from Catastrophic Forgetting

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It is found that immediate post-training performance does not reliably predict retention after subsequent fine-tuning, and this supports the view that post-training drives immediate specialization while early exposure improves robustness to later forgetting.

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