Pretraining Data Curation Still Holds Monumental Gains, Argues Practitioner Amid RL Hype
generativist · x · 2026-09-11
A practitioner on X argues that while RL is the dominant paradigm right now, there are still monumental gains to be made by improving pretraining data curation, filtering, and labeling — a counterpoint to the industry's RL-first focus, echoing the view that data engineering remains an underexploited lever.
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