A Domain Label Is Not a Treatment: Why Specialist and General-Purpose Language Models Trade Places Across Studies, What a 'Medical' Checkpoint Leaves Unspecified, and the Matched Contrasts That Would Assign the Gain

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Mahendrakar, P. (2026). A Domain Label Is Not a Treatment: Why Specialist and General-Purpose Language Models Trade Places Across Studies, What a 'Medical' Checkpoint Leaves Unspecified, and the Matched Contrasts That Would Assign the Gain [Preprint]. Life of Research. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23784965

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@misc{lor1622026,
  title        = {A Domain Label Is Not a Treatment: Why Specialist and General-Purpose Language Models Trade Places Across Studies, What a 'Medical' Checkpoint Leaves Unspecified, and the Matched Contrasts That Would Assign the Gain},
  author       = {Pranay Mahendrakar},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Life of Research},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.23784965},
  url          = {https://lifeofresearch.com/preprints/162},
  keywords     = {domain adaptation, domain-specific language models, continued pretraining, medical language models, specialized terminology, evaluation methodology, fine-tuning mechanisms, calibration},
  note         = {LOR-00162}
}

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