@article{doinstructiontunedmodelsalwaysperformbet,
  title = {Do Instruction-Tuned Models Always Perform Better Than Base Models? Evidence from Math and Domain-Shifted Benchmarks},
  author = {Prateek Munjal and Clement Christophe and Ronnie Rajan and Praveenkumar Kanithi},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2601.13244},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.13244},
}