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Jun 3, 2025 · Artificial Intelligence

Can 1K Fine‑Tuning Replace 100K RL Steps? Insights from Re‑distillation Research

An extensive analysis shows that a 1K‑sample fine‑tuning stage can replicate the generalization gains of thousands of reinforcement‑learning steps, explains the compressibility of RL, introduces a sample‑effect theory, and demonstrates that re‑distillation and small‑scale SFT dramatically improve LLM performance.