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Learning Style, Forgetting Semantics: A Case Study of SFT and RFT on Classification Tasks

Why does supervised fine-tuning (SFT) lead to more forgetting than reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT), even when all teacher demonstrations are semantically correct?

By Haodong Liang, Yanhao Jin, Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Lifeng LaiarXiv - stat.ML

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Originally published by arXiv - stat.ML on Oct 5, 2026.

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