Understanding the Synergy between SFT, RLVR, and OPD in LLM Post-Training

Emre Can Acikgoz, Yang Li, Zeyu Leo Liu +4

Modern LLM post-training composes supervised fine-tuning (SFT), reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR), and on-policy distillation (OPD) into multi-stage pipelines,…