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PostTrainBench: How Far Can AI Agents Go in Automating LLM Post-Training?

calendar_today March 14, 2026 person Madhu Shantan domain maxim

Introduction Post-training is where the real cost of LLM development lives. Taking a pretrained base model and turning it into something actually useful - an assistant that follows instructions, reasons carefully, and behaves safely - requires months of supervised fine-tuning, reward modeling, and alignment work from teams of skilled ML

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