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Fine‑tuning Shifts Model Output Form Before True Competence, New Study Shows

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US Mandates AI Companies to Report Security Incidents; Analysts ... The authors report that “fine‑tuning shifts output form before competence,” meaning that models quickly adopt a new stylistic or formatting bias while their underlying performance on benchmarks such as MMLU remains essentially unchanged (78.61 vs.

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78.65 base score).Key developmentsThe study demonstrates that stacking task adapters on a frozen domain adapter provides “no seen‑task benefit” and that any apparent loss of generalisation on unseen schemas is actually “a single, highly seed‑stable formatting…

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The authors report that “fine‑tuning shifts output form before competence,” meaning that models quickly adopt a new stylistic or formatting bias while their underlying performance on benchmarks such as MMLU remains essentially unchanged (78.61 vs. 78.65 base score).Key developmentsThe study demonstrates that stacking task adapters on a frozen domain adapter provides “no seen‑task benefit” and that any apparent loss of generalisation on unseen schemas is actually “a single, highly seed‑stable format…

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