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Logic Before Language: Pre-pretraining on Formal Derivations Fosters Skill Acquisition and Compressibility

First seen · 8/5/2026, 01:02 AMLatest activity · 8/5/2026, 01:02 AM

This paper proposes Logic-PPT, an initialization stage that trains language models on formal derivations before natural-language pretraining. At a reported 100B-token evaluation scale, the authors say Logic-PPT reaches 80% accuracy on linguistic tasks using 36B fewer tokens than standard initialization and exceeds alternative symbolic pre-pretraining baselines. They further associate the intervention with lower-rank, spectrally concentrated representations and report that pruning to about 33% sparsity preserves dense-baseline performance. These claims are potentially significant, but the supplied arXiv record is dated August 4, 2026 and was not independently verified here.

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    Logic Before Language: Pre-pretraining on Formal Derivations Fosters Skill Acquisition and Compressibility