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Projection sampling preserves capabilities but diminishes gains from alignment fine-tuning.

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Fine-tuning models on alignment reasoning from stronger models can improve safety but harms general capabilities, while mixing alignment traces with the student model's own responses to generic instructions has been proposed as a mitigation.

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“TLDR Fine-tuning models on alignment reasoning from stronger models can improve safety, but at a substantial cost to general capabilities.”
LessWrong, 16 Oct 2026, 13:03.

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