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Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them

As of 23 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 48 of 48 outbound references and 6 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2507.10616.

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Observation 15f1e1a1-4a69-4f00-97d0-79b3a640d466 · outbound

This paper cites Mechanistic Interpretability for AI Safety -- A Review.

Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them Mechanistic Interpretability for AI Safety -- A Review

Reference 3

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This paper cites Iteration Head: A Mechanistic Study of Chain-of-Thought.

Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them Iteration Head: A Mechanistic Study of Chain-of-Thought

Reference 6

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Observation 57e9a16c-e03b-40da-99b0-e566e1ccce71 · outbound

This paper cites Rethinking Reflection in Pre-Training.

Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them Rethinking Reflection in Pre-Training

Reference 8

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This paper cites Cognitive Behaviors that Enable Self-Improving Reasoners, or, Four Habits of Highly Effective STaRs.

Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them Cognitive Behaviors that Enable Self-Improving Reasoners, or, Four Habits of Highly Effective STaRs

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This paper cites Geva, M., Schuster, R., Berant, J., and Levy, O.

Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them Geva, M., Schuster, R., Berant, J., and Levy, O

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Observation 8d97fc5f-7d92-4f99-b5ac-d69f97d2b1b4 · outbound

This paper cites Transformer Feed-Forward Layers Are Key-Value Memories.

Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them Transformer Feed-Forward Layers Are Key-Value Memories

Reference 11

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This paper cites Gugger, S., Debut, L., Wolf, T., Schmid, P., Mueller, Z., Mangrulkar, S., Sun, M., and Bossan, B.

Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them Gugger, S., Debut, L., Wolf, T., Schmid, P., Mueller, Z., Mangrulkar, S., Sun, M., and Bossan, B

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Observation aefa57ea-aeb5-415b-8397-01a463fa3bba · outbound

This paper cites Learning to Reason for Long-Form Story Generation.

Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them Learning to Reason for Long-Form Story Generation

Reference 13

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This paper cites Does Localization Inform Editing? Surprising Differences in Causality-Based Localization vs. Knowledge Editing in Language Models.

Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them Does Localization Inform Editing? Surprising Differences in Causality-Based Localization vs. Knowledge Editing in Language Models

Reference 14

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Observation 72d2d0e0-4ccc-4476-aece-eaf3603403bf · outbound

This paper cites Measuring Massive Multitask Language Understanding.

Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them Measuring Massive Multitask Language Understanding

Reference 15

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This paper cites Huang, Z., Cheng, T., Qiu, Z., Wang, Z., Xu, Y ., Ponti, E.

Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them Huang, Z., Cheng, T., Qiu, Z., Wang, Z., Xu, Y ., Ponti, E

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This paper cites Blending Supervised and Reinforcement Fine-Tuning with Prefix Sampling.

Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them Blending Supervised and Reinforcement Fine-Tuning with Prefix Sampling

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This paper cites Tulu 3: Pushing Frontiers in Open Language Model Post-Training.

Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them Tulu 3: Pushing Frontiers in Open Language Model Post-Training

Reference 18

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Observation 3b0fa0d9-b09a-4ac6-8706-3bea129418de · outbound

This paper cites Let's Verify Step by Step.

Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them Let's Verify Step by Step

Reference 19

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This paper cites The Llama 3 Herd of Models.

Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them The Llama 3 Herd of Models

Reference 20

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Observation 330fffd6-db9c-4c8a-b5bc-8ed779e39786 · outbound

This paper cites Locating and Editing Factual Associations in GPT.

Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them Locating and Editing Factual Associations in GPT

Reference 21

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Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them org/abs/2505.11711

Reference 22

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This paper cites OpenAI o1 System Card.

Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them OpenAI o1 System Card

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Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them Prakash, N., Shaham, T

Reference 25

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This paper cites Fine-Tuning Enhances Existing Mechanisms: A Case Study on Entity Tracking.

Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them Fine-Tuning Enhances Existing Mechanisms: A Case Study on Entity Tracking

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This paper cites ZeRO: Memory Optimizations Toward Training Trillion Parameter Models.

Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them ZeRO: Memory Optimizations Toward Training Trillion Parameter Models

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This paper cites GPQA: A Graduate-Level Google-Proof Q&A Benchmark.

Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them GPQA: A Graduate-Level Google-Proof Q&A Benchmark

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This paper cites DeepSeekMath: Pushing the Limits of Mathematical Reasoning in Open Language Models.

Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them DeepSeekMath: Pushing the Limits of Mathematical Reasoning in Open Language Models

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Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them Amuro and Char: Analyzing the Relationship between Pre-Training and Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models

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This paper cites Optimizing Language Models for Inference Time Objectives using Reinforcement Learning.

Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them Optimizing Language Models for Inference Time Objectives using Reinforcement Learning

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Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them 2 OLMo 2 Furious

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Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them LLM Circuit Analyses Are Consistent Across Training and Scale

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Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them Interpretability in the Wild: a Circuit for Indirect Object Identification in GPT-2 small

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Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them MMLU-Pro: A More Robust and Challenging Multi-Task Language Understanding Benchmark

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Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models

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Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them Learning to Reason under Off-Policy Guidance

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Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them DAPO: An Open-Source LLM Reinforcement Learning System at Scale

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Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them Does Reinforcement Learning Really Incentivize Reasoning Capacity in LLMs Beyond the Base Model?

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Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them Echo Chamber: RL Post-training Amplifies Behaviors Learned in Pretraining

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Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them Instruction-Following Evaluation for Large Language Models

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Revisiting LLM Reasoning via Information Bottleneck Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them

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Value Drifts: Tracing Value Alignment During LLM Post-Training Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them

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EMO-R3: Reflective Reinforcement Learning for Emotional Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models cites this paper.

EMO-R3: Reflective Reinforcement Learning for Emotional Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them

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TOPCELL: Topology Optimization of Standard Cell via LLMs cites this paper.

TOPCELL: Topology Optimization of Standard Cell via LLMs Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them

Reference 27

Resolution: metadata mismatch; arxiv_id, observed 2026-05-10T14:15:29.308434Z

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Observation e8252faa-6deb-4380-bd1e-95bd3d5eda90 · inbound

Decouple before Integration: Test-time Synthesis of SFT and RLVR Task Vectors cites this paper.

Decouple before Integration: Test-time Synthesis of SFT and RLVR Task Vectors Scalpel vs. Hammer: GRPO Amplifies Existing Capabilities, SFT Replaces Them

Reference 35

Resolution: metadata mismatch; arxiv_id, observed 2026-05-11T15:51:44.090681Z

Source-reported events for the cited work

No event found in the named queried sources as of 2026-08-23T06:30:58.430688+00:00.