@article{acausallanguagemodelingdetourimprovesenc, title = {A Causal Language Modeling Detour Improves Encoder Continued Pretraining}, author = {Rian Touchent and Eric de la Clergerie}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2605.12438}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12438}, }