@article{pretrainingvsfinetuningareproducibility, title = {Pre-training vs. Fine-tuning: A Reproducibility Study on Dense Retrieval Knowledge Acquisition}, author = {Zheng Yao and Shuai Wang and Guido Zuccon}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2505.07166}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.07166v1}, }