Inject, Align, Recover: Staged Post-Training for Retrieval-Free Document Knowledge Internalization
Internalizes document knowledge for retrieval-free question answering while recovering general model capabilities.
Result: Across eight dataset-model settings, domain QA accuracy improves by an average 3.6 percentage points over Vanilla SFT.
All four reported metrics improve in seven of eight settings across CC and CCI and four model families. Mean general performance across IFEval, MMLU, and MSBench improves by 12.1 percentage points on average. The Inject, Align, and Recover stages separate knowledge injection, QA alignment, and general-capability recovery; some alternative methods win individual general metrics.