The Persona Hierarchy Model: Understanding Contextual Generalization in Fine-Tuning LLMs

arXiv:2610.09384 · cs.CL, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-10-07 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-10-07

Updated: 2026-10-07

Terminology

• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes

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