Support or Magnitude? Characterizing Neuron Relevance for Instruction Data Selection

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-10-12

Updated: 2026-10-12

Comments: 23 pages, 16 figures, 7 tables

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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