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The Coverage Principle: How Pre-Training Enables Post-Training
Fan Chen, Audrey Huang, Noah Golowich +5
Language models demonstrate remarkable abilities when pre-trained on large text corpora and fine-tuned for specific tasks, but how and why pre-training shapes the success of the fi…
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A Theory of Learning with Autoregressive Chain of Thought
Nirmit Joshi, Gal Vardi, Adam Block +4
For a given base class of sequence-to-next-token generators, we consider learning prompt-to-answer mappings obtained by iterating a fixed, time-invariant generator for multiple ste…