Nat Lambert shares a reading list on synthetic data and agentic SFT data

natolambert · x · 2026-07-22

A reply from Nat Lambert points to a reading list centered on synthetic data and policy distillation.

The links include an example benchmark, a chapter on synthetic data, the MOPD paper, OpenThoughts 3 for reasoning SFT data, Olmo 3 as a recipe using OpenThoughts, and more material on open agentic SFT data.

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