@article{understandingcontextualrecallintransform,
  title = {Understanding Contextual Recall in Transformers: How Finetuning Enables In-Context Reasoning over Pretraining Knowledge},
  author = {Bhavya Vasudeva and Puneesh Deora and Alberto Bietti and Vatsal Sharan and Christos Thrampoulidis},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2603.20969},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20969},
}