The Coverage Principle: How Pre-Training Enables Post-Training

ICLROral2026

Authors
Fan Chen, Audrey Huang, Noah Golowich, Sadhika Malladi, Adam Block, Jordan T. Ash, Akshay Krishnamurthy, Dylan J Foster
Affiliation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Venue
ICLR 2026
Track
Oral

TL;DR

We introduce the coverage profile, which captures the relationship between pre- and post-training performance and admits a rich statistical theory…

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Topics

pre-training theory rag

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