AI RESEARCH
Not All Synthetic Data Is Yours to Learn From
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2605.31126v1 Announce Type: cross Can a language model improve from plain text sampled from itself, with no prompts, no teacher, no verifier, and no reward model? Yes, but only when the synthetic corpus is compatible with the student, a relational property of the source-student pair rather than an intrinsic property of the data. We call this the latent capability resurfacing hypothesis: weak self-