COLM 2026: Robust adaptation study unifies safety pretraining and midtraining
AdtRaghunathan · x · 2026-10-07
A study presented at COLM 2026 proposes early exposure to downstream tasks during pretraining/midtraining for more robust adaptation, unifying prior work on persona/alignment pretraining and downstream-safety midtraining under one perspective. The poster (Grand Ballroom #106) is part of a group led by a former COLM 2025 PC chair presenting multiple papers on rethinking pretraining for safety and efficient, robust adaptation.
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