{"slug": "base-models-can-reason-by-taking-a-cue-from-training-data", "title": "Base Models Can Reason By Taking a Cue From Training Data", "summary": "A new paper finds that base models can reason competitively with their reinforcement-learning-tuned counterparts when particular starting token cues are fixed, showing that training data creates associations between a response's opening tokens and the reasoning behavior that follows. The research demonstrates that fixing those starting token cues makes a base model's performance competitive with its reinforcement-learning-tuned version.", "body_md": "In this paper, we study how training data creates associations between the tokens at the start of a base model's response and the reasoning behavior that follows. First, we demonstrate that fixing particular starting token cues makes a base model's performance competitive with that of its reinforcem", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/base-models-can-reason-by-taking-a-cue-from-training-data", "canonical_source": "https://aiflash.com/news/131762/", "published_at": "2026-10-06 04:30:02+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-06 04:47:09.964724+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "machine-learning", "large-language-models", "ai-research"], "entities": [], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/base-models-can-reason-by-taking-a-cue-from-training-data", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/base-models-can-reason-by-taking-a-cue-from-training-data.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/base-models-can-reason-by-taking-a-cue-from-training-data.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/base-models-can-reason-by-taking-a-cue-from-training-data.jsonld"}}