Midtraining is a new part of many training pipelines, but when does it help and can it backfire? 🤔 In our new preprint, we use controlled experiments to pin this down. TL;DR; midtraining helps the most when it “bridges” pretraining and posttraining, and mitigates forgetting after posttraining. Timing is also very important. 🧵

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