Compute Aligned Training: Optimizing for Test Time Inference
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arXiv:2604.24957v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Scaling test-time compute has emerged as a powerful mechanism for enhancing Large Language Model (LLM) performance. However, standard post-training paradigms, Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Reinforcement Learning (RL), optimize the likelihood of individual samples under a base policy, creating a misalignment with test time procedures that rely on aggregated or filtered outputs. In this work, we propose Compute Aligned Training, which aligns training objectives with test-time strategies. By conceptualizing inference strategies as opera
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2604.24957v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Scaling test-time compute has emerged as a powerful mechanism for enhancing Large Language Model (LLM) performance.
- However, standard post-training paradigms, Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Reinforcement Learning (RL), optimize the likelihood of individual samples under a base policy, creating a misalignment with test time procedures that rely on aggregated or filtered outputs.
- In this work, we propose Compute Aligned Training, which aligns training objectives with test-time strategies.
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