@article{themagiccorrelationsunderstandingknowled,
  title = {The Magic Correlations: Understanding Knowledge Transfer from Pretraining to Supervised Fine-Tuning},
  author = {Simin Fan and Dimitris Paparas and Natasha Noy and Binbin Xiong and Noveen Sachdeva and Berivan Isik},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2602.11217},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11217},
}