A paper posted on arXiv examines a staged post-training pipeline for multimodal foundation models. The pipeline chains three phases in sequence: vision-language alignment, reasoning distillation, and domain tuning. According to the abstract, the authors aim to characterise how each phase trades capabilities against the others.
The paper's central motivation is that this staging is common but poorly understood. The abstract notes that such trade-offs remain under-characterised, and the work appears to track them in the context of Japanese financial documents, giving the study a clear domain-specific focus.
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