arXiv · 2026 · Preprint

Mechanistic origins of catastrophic forgetting: why RL preserves circuits better than SFT?

Jeanmely Rojas Nunez, Viraj Sawant, Nathan Allen, Nomgondalai Amgalanbaatar, Yannis Zongo, Vasu Sharma, Maheep Chaudhary

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Date
2026-05-21
Citations
3
arXiv
2605.28860
Cite
@misc{nunez2026mechanistic,
  title = {Mechanistic origins of catastrophic forgetting: why RL preserves circuits better than SFT?},
  author = {Jeanmely Rojas Nunez and Viraj Sawant and Nathan Allen and Nomgondalai Amgalanbaatar and Yannis Zongo and Vasu Sharma and Maheep Chaudhary},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2605.28860},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.28860},
}