arXiv:2511. 22823v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Weakly supervised learning has emerged as a practical alternative to fully supervised learning when complete and accurate labels are costly or infeasible to acquire.
By Miao Zhang, Junpeng Li, Changchun Hua, Yana Yang
arXiv:2606. 01081v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decision-focused learning (DFL) trains predictive models by optimizing downstream decision quality rather than standalone prediction accuracy.
By Wyame Benslimane, Tinghan Ye, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Paul Grigas
arXiv:2605. 23268v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In many prediction problems, we have extra information during training (for example, measurements that are expensive or slow to collect) that will not be available when the model is deployed.
By Jiahao Shi, Omar Hagrass, Jason M. Klusowski
arXiv:2604. 06614v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Prompt learning has gained significant attention as a parameter-efficient approach for adapting large pre-trained vision-language models to downstream tasks.
By Yaqi Zhao, Haoliang Sun, Yating Wang, Yongshun Gong, Yilong Yin
arXiv:2604. 25077v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Weak-to-strong alignment offers a promising route to scalable supervision, but it can fail when a strong model becomes confidently wrong on examples that lie in the weak model's blind spots.
By Hamid Osooli, Kareema Batool, Rick Gentry, Tiasa Singha Roy, Ashwin Gupta, Anirudha Ramesh
arXiv:2605. 25582v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning for large language models faces a fundamental trade-off between sample efficiency and asymptotic performance: strictly on-policy methods discard trajectories after a single update, while off-policy reuse introduces distribution mismatch that existing trust-region techniques mitigate primarily by enforcing conservative optimization, often leaving rich training signals underutilized.
By Changyu Chen, Xiting Wang, Rui Yan
arXiv:2503. 00539v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) has evolved to be one of the main methods for fine-tuning large language models (LLMs).
By Debmalya Mandal, Paulius Sasnauskas, Goran Radanovic
arXiv:2209. 01754v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The empirical risk minimization approach to data-driven decision making requires access to training data drawn under the same conditions as those that will be faced when the decision rule is deployed.
By Roshni Sahoo, Lihua Lei, Stefan Wager
arXiv:2606. 11189v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) typically maximizes the likelihood of every token in a demonstrated trajectory.
By Tong Xie, Yuanhao Ban, Yunqi Hong, Sohyun An, Yihang Chen, Cho-Jui Hsieh
arXiv:2606. 18307v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Optimizing the training data distribution for Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) dictates the capability of Large Language Models (LLMs).
By Zefan Wang, Lincheng Li, Tianyu Yu, Yuan Yao
arXiv:2510. 01163v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The factors driving the performance of in-context learning (ICL) in large language models (LLMs) remain poorly understood despite ICL's surprising effectiveness, enabling models to adapt to new tasks from only a handful of examples.
By Wa\"iss Azizian, Ali Hasan
arXiv:2602. 08222v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As post-training optimization becomes central to improving large language models, we observe a persistent saturation bottleneck: once models grow highly confident, further training yields diminishing returns.
By Zehao Chen, Gongxun Li, Tianxiang Ai, Zixuan Huang, Xiaodong Liu, Yifei Li, Wang Zhou, Fuzhen Zhuang, Xianglong Liu, Jianxin Li, Deqing Wang, Yikun Ban