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arxiv: 2605.29303 · v1 · pith:HRMKPDEBnew · submitted 2026-05-28 · 💻 cs.AI

Entropy-KL Divergence-based Token Masking: A Novel Approach for Selective Fine-tuning of Large Language Models

Qi Liu , Mingdi Sun , Yongyi He , Zhi Zheng , Tong Xu , Yi Zheng , Zhefeng Wang , Enhong Chen This is my paper

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keywords supervised fine-tuningreinforcement learningtoken maskingentropyKL divergencelarge language modelsmath reasoningdistribution shift
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The pith

Masking high-entropy and high-KL tokens during SFT lets models acquire task knowledge without drifting from their pre-trained distribution, improving math reasoning and later RL exploration.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

Standard supervised fine-tuning on limited data often causes models to overfit specific samples and shift away from their original pre-trained knowledge, which then hinders effective exploration in the subsequent reinforcement learning stage. The paper proposes EKSFT to counter this by identifying tokens with high entropy or high KL divergence from a reference model and excluding them from the imitation objective. This selective masking is intended to activate task-relevant capabilities rather than force memorization of content. A sympathetic reader would care because the approach directly targets a practical bottleneck in the SFT-then-RL pipeline used for most large language models today.

Core claim

In low-data regimes, EKSFT selectively masks tokens that exhibit either high entropy or high KL divergence from a reference model during supervised fine-tuning; by excluding these high-uncertainty, distribution-shifting tokens from imitation, the method injects task-specific knowledge while preserving the integrity of the model's pre-trained distribution, yielding better performance on mathematical reasoning benchmarks and improved exploration when the resulting model is further fine-tuned with RL.

What carries the argument

EKSFT (Entropy-KL Selective Fine-Tuning), the mechanism that masks tokens with high entropy or high KL divergence from a reference model during the SFT imitation loss.

If this is right

  • EKSFT produces higher accuracy than standard SFT on mathematical reasoning benchmarks.
  • Starting RL from an EKSFT checkpoint yields better final performance than starting from a standard-SFT checkpoint.
  • The method reduces unwanted distribution shift in low-data SFT regimes.
  • SFT can be reframed as activating existing capabilities instead of memorizing limited samples.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same masking logic could be tested on non-math domains such as code generation or scientific reasoning where distribution shift is also a concern.
  • Dynamic, per-step recomputation of entropy and KL during training might further reduce the risk of discarding useful tokens.
  • The approach may lower the minimum data volume required for an effective SFT cold-start before RL.

Load-bearing premise

That high-entropy and high-KL tokens are mainly responsible for harmful distribution shift and can be safely excluded without removing useful task-relevant learning signals.

What would settle it

Run standard SFT and EKSFT on the same low-data math reasoning set, then measure both final SFT accuracy and post-RL exploration metrics; if EKSFT shows no consistent gain or lower accuracy on the benchmarks, the central claim is falsified.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.29303 by Enhong Chen, Mingdi Sun, Qi Liu, Tong Xu, Yi Zheng, Yongyi He, Zhefeng Wang, Zhi Zheng.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: We train Qwen3-8B on the OpenR1 dataset and evaluate the Pass@K performance on AIME25. These results show that SFT models can yield subop￾timal performance compared to Base models when K exceeds a threshold, e.g., K=140 as shown. are increasingly apparent. A reasonable viewpoint is that SFT provides a cold-start, as pure RL of￾ten yields insufficient positive samples for efficient learning. However, recent… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: We compared the pass@k on AIME25 based on Qwen3-8B model. 5.3 Ablation Study In this section, we performed an ablation study to examine the contributions of EKSFT compo￾nents, including entropy regularization and KL￾divergence regularization as summarized in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: We compared the pass@k on AIME25 based [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: We reported the relative changes of the trained [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: We reported the token probabilities of different methods on the same question with its solution based on [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_6.png] view at source ↗
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Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) followed by reinforcement learning (RL) has become a standard post-training paradigm for large language models. This paradigm provides a cold-start for RL exploration, avoiding the inefficiency of pure RL where on-policy sampling yields insufficient positive samples. However, in practice, existing approaches often use a small amount of data for SFT initialization compared to the RL phase, which can cause the model to fit the limited samples and shift away from its pre-trained distribution. This distribution shift impedes the model's ability to effectively explore during subsequent RL training. To address this challenge, we propose that in low-data regimes, SFT should prioritize activating task-relevant capabilities rather than memorizing specific content. Along this line, we propose EKSFT (Entropy-KL Selective Fine-Tuning), which selectively masks tokens that exhibit either high entropy or high KL divergence from a reference model. By excluding these high-uncertainty, distribution-shifting tokens from imitation, EKSFT injects task-specific knowledge while preserving the integrity of the model's pre-trained distribution. Empirical evaluations on mathematical reasoning benchmarks demonstrate that EKSFT consistently outperforms standard SFT. Further RL fine-tuning from the EKSFT model yields consistently better post-RL performance, indicating improved exploration for the RL stage. Our codes and datasets are available at https://github.com/MINE-USTC/EKSFT.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript proposes EKSFT, a selective token-masking strategy for supervised fine-tuning (SFT) of LLMs in low-data regimes. Tokens exhibiting high entropy or high KL divergence from a reference model are excluded from the imitation loss, with the claim that this injects task-specific knowledge while avoiding distribution shift away from the pre-trained model. Empirical results on mathematical reasoning benchmarks are stated to show consistent gains over standard SFT, with further improvements observed after subsequent RL fine-tuning due to better exploration.

Significance. If the reported gains are shown to be robust under controlled ablations and statistical testing, the approach could supply a lightweight, interpretable heuristic for mitigating over-fitting during SFT initialization of RL pipelines. The open release of code and datasets is a constructive element that would facilitate independent verification.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the statement that 'empirical evaluations demonstrate consistent outperformance' supplies no information on experimental controls, baseline selection, number of random seeds, statistical significance testing, or the procedure used to set the entropy/KL masking threshold; these omissions render the central performance claim unverifiable from the provided description.
  2. [Method] EKSFT description (method section): the claim that masking high-entropy or high-KL tokens is the mechanism that 'injects task-specific knowledge while preserving the integrity of the model's pre-trained distribution' is presented without a first-principles derivation or controlled ablation against alternatives (e.g., low-entropy masking, random masking, or entropy-only masking); this assumption is load-bearing for the proposed method yet remains untested.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the reference model used for the KL term is not identified; clarify whether it is the base pre-trained model or a separately trained model.
  2. [Abstract] The GitHub link is provided but the manuscript does not indicate which exact datasets, model sizes, or hyper-parameter settings correspond to the reported numbers.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. We address each major comment below and commit to revisions that strengthen the verifiability and empirical grounding of the claims.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the statement that 'empirical evaluations demonstrate consistent outperformance' supplies no information on experimental controls, baseline selection, number of random seeds, statistical significance testing, or the procedure used to set the entropy/KL masking threshold; these omissions render the central performance claim unverifiable from the provided description.

    Authors: We agree the abstract is too terse on these points. The full manuscript reports results over 3 random seeds with mean and standard deviation, compares against vanilla SFT plus other selective baselines, applies paired t-tests for significance, and selects the entropy/KL threshold via grid search on a held-out validation split. We will revise the abstract to include a concise clause summarizing the use of multiple seeds, statistical testing, and validation-based threshold selection. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Method] EKSFT description (method section): the claim that masking high-entropy or high-KL tokens is the mechanism that 'injects task-specific knowledge while preserving the integrity of the model's pre-trained distribution' is presented without a first-principles derivation or controlled ablation against alternatives (e.g., low-entropy masking, random masking, or entropy-only masking); this assumption is load-bearing for the proposed method yet remains untested.

    Authors: The method is presented as a heuristic motivated by the intuition that high-entropy tokens reflect uncertainty and high-KL tokens indicate distribution shift. The manuscript already contains ablations versus random masking; we acknowledge the absence of a first-principles derivation and the need for explicit low-entropy and entropy-only controls. We will add these additional ablations together with expanded discussion of the design rationale in the revised version. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity detected; method described at high level without equations or self-referential reductions

full rationale

The provided abstract and description introduce EKSFT as a selective masking approach motivated by distribution shift concerns during SFT, but contain no equations, derivation steps, fitted parameters presented as predictions, or load-bearing self-citations. The central claim that masking high-entropy or high-KL tokens preserves the pre-trained distribution while injecting task knowledge is stated as a proposal rather than derived from first principles or reduced to inputs by construction. No patterns matching self-definitional, fitted-input-called-prediction, or uniqueness-imported-from-authors are present. The paper is therefore self-contained as a descriptive method contribution without a derivation chain that could be circular.

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