Cornell Professor Unveils 'Finetuner's Fallacy' at COLM

Incoming Cornell Tech assistant professor Pratyusha Maini will present two COLM papers on how pretraining shapes model behavior. She frames her PhD work as the 'Finetuner's Fallacy': early training data leaves traces in representations that are extremely hard to undo later.

2026-10-06 ~ 2026-10-06 · 2 related posts

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