Does Fine-Tuning on Summarized CoT Traces Actually Work
wombweed · reddit · 2026-07-13
The post questions a specific training approach: why fine-tune on summarized, curated SOTA CoT traces.
Core concerns include:
- Whether distillation/fine-tuning can magically push output capabilities beyond the base model's limits;
- If the reasoning traces generated by Anthropic models actually match their internal, true chain of thought;
- Whether fine-tuning on training data that only captures surface-level reasoning could actually degrade performance.
This is a research-oriented discussion focusing on CoT distillation, reasoning trace authenticity, and training data quality.
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