Aleksandr Beznosikov

Self-Study Reconsidered: The Hidden Fragility of Learning from Self-Generated QA

Ekaterina Alimaskina, Denis Shveykin, Gleb Molodtsov, Igor Shalygin, Alexey Kadeishvili, Aleksandr Beznosikov

Language models are increasingly taught from synthetic question--answer (QA) supervision: a model generates questions about a document, answers them from the same text, and the resulting pairs are used to fine-tune, distill, or compress knowledge into another model. We show that…Read more