COLM 2026 talk planned on robust adaptation through early exposure to downstream tasks

On October 6, a researcher said they planned to present COLM 2026 work on robust adaptation via early exposure to downstream tasks. They said it unifies work on persona/alignment pretraining and midtraining for downstream safety under one perspective. A separate post promoted a group's conference posters and talks on rethinking pretraining for safety and efficient, robust adaptation.