Syeda Nahida Akter | Front-Loading Reasoning: Why Reasoning Data Belongs in Pretraining
How should reasoning data be used when training large language models? In this talk, Syeda Akter (Carnegie Mellon University and NVIDIA) shares research showing that introducing reasoning data during pretraining creates a lasting advantage that amplifies the benefits of post training. She also discusses reinforcement learning in pretraining, synthetic reasoning data, and new directions for building stronger reasoning models.

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Your Phone Is Destroying Your Sense of Meaning | Arthur Brooks [ARC 2026]

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Understand AI in 14 minutes – with Anthropic's Chloe Lubinski [ARC 2026]

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Complete Generative AI Course For Free | Gen AI Course 2026 | Intellipaat

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