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Regret Pre-training: Bridging Prior and Posterior Views for Enhanced Knowledge Grounding

arXiv:2606. 03080v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Causal language models factorize sequence probabilities using only preceding context, leaving future information unexploited during training despite its availability in the training data.

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Jul 2

Neuron-Aware Data Selection for Annotation-Free LLM Self-Distillation

Post-training large language models (LLMs) without real-world interaction feedback or human-labeled supervision remains challenging, particularly in specialized domains where expert annotations are costly to obtain. Recent annotation-free self-evolution methods address this by using the model's own outputs as supervision signals, constructing a teacher via additional context and aggregating predictions across multiple rollouts through majority voting to produce pseudo-labels.

arXiv Machine Learning
2d ago

Activation-Conditioned Self-Distillation

arXiv:2609.38342v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy self-distillation uses a model as its own teacher to provide dense supervision for reasoning, often through reference-solution conditioning....

By Zhexi Lu, Subhajit Chaudhury, Tejaswini Pedapati, Keerthiram Murugesan, Lei Yu
arXiv AI
Aug 7

DASH: Divergence-Adaptive Supervision Horizons for On-Policy Self-Distillation of Reasoning Models

arXiv:2608. 06243v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) improves the reasoning capabilities of large language models using automatically verifiable outcome signals, but these signals are typically sparse and at the sequence-level.

By ZhiYan Hou, Xinyu Tang, Hongyan An, Jianjin Zhang, Weizhen Wang, Yunyun Han, Gengsheng Li, Xiangzhao Hao, Haiyun Guo, Wenbin Hu, Jinqiao Wang, Yafeng Deng
arXiv AI
Sep 3

Task-Level Natural Language Priors as Learning Signals for Low-Resource LLM Training

Task-Level Natural Language Priors as Learning Signals for Low-Resource LLM Training proposes Prior-Guided Tuning (PGT), a training approach that treats natural-language priors as auxiliary learning signals rather than just input context. The method introduces Contrastive Prior Steering (CPS), which adds positive and negative prior-conditioned auxiliary losses while preserving the original supervised objective. Experiments on AmbiMath, Jigsaw, and MNLI/HANS demonstrate that CPS consistently outperforms plain and prompt fine-tuning, achieving high accuracy and significant gains with limited training data.

By Jian Gao, Xiao Zhang, Xun Zhu, Miao Li, Ji Wu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

A Unified Framework for In-Context Learning with Causal and Masked Language Models

arXiv:2607. 04081v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In-context learning (ICL) has emerged as a central capability of pretrained language models, yet its theoretical analysis has focused primarily on causal language models trained by left-to-right autoregressive prediction, such as GPT-style models.

By Chenrui Liu, Chuanlong Xie, Falong Tan, Yicheng Zeng, Lixing Zhu
arXiv AI
Jul 28

TokenMem: Faithful Knowledge Injection for Frozen LLMs

arXiv:2607. 22625v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhances large language models (LLMs) with external knowledge, but suffers from knowledge conflicts: when retrieved information contradicts parametric memory, the shared self-attention pathway produces unpredictable outputs.

By Chengzhang Yu, Chenyang Zheng, Zening Lu, Yingru He, Yutong Huang, Yiming Zhang, Yue Xu, Zhanpeng Jin