How SPoT jointly trains answer generation and self-judgment across training stages
polkirichenko · x · 2026-11-12
Part 2 of the SPoT thread: to address LLMs producing unsafe, incorrect, or overconfident answers without recognizing their mistakes, SPoT has models generate a critical reasoning trace and verdict after answering. Answer generation and self-judgment are jointly trained via SFT distillation or RL, and post-thinking can be learned at continued pre-training, mid-training, or post-training stages.
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