OmniTaskonomy: Year-long study shows generation training can improve understanding tasks
WeijiaShi2 · x · 2026-10-06
After a year-long study, the OmniTaskonomy team shows that with the right training recipe, training on generation data can improve performance on understanding tasks — challenging the intuition that generation and understanding are separate skills. Full paper in the link.
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