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A Survey of Large Language Model Post-Training Methods

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This survey paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.21321) examines various methods for enhancing the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) after their initial training, emphasizing techniques that improve reasoning, factual accuracy, and alignment with desired behaviors. It explores key strategies like fine-tuning, reinforcement learning (RL), and test-time scaling, which involves optimizing how the model generates responses during use. The paper also discusses different approaches to reward modeling, crucial for RL-based alignment, and presents various search and decoding methods used at inference time to improve reasoning quality. Finally, it highlights current challenges and future research directions in the field of LLM post-training.

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