arXiv:2608. 17268v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Curriculum learning has been widely adopted in the post-training of large language models by organizing training data from easy to hard.
By Zhikai Ding, Ziyi Ye
arXiv:2606. 00798v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Parameter compression of class-conditional diffusion models reveals an underexplored limitation in output-level distillation: the unconditional score branch remains unsupervised, leaving the classifier-free guidance gap underdetermined in the student.
By Abdullah Al Shafi, Kazi Saeed Alam, Sk Imran Hossain, Engelbert Mephu Nguifo
arXiv:2603. 13761v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Curriculum learning--ordering training examples in a sequence to aid machine learning--takes inspiration from human learning, but has not gained widespread acceptance.
By Amogh Inamdar, Zhenwei Tang, Ashton Anderson, Richard Zemel
arXiv:2402. 14035v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Knowledge distillation from foundation models to compact domain models is challenging due to substantial gaps in capacity, architecture, and modality.
By Zichang Liu, Qingyun Liu, Yuening Li, Liang Liu, Anshumali Shrivastava, Shuchao Bi, Lichan Hong, Ed H. Chi, Zhe Zhao
arXiv:2603. 26556v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Converting a pretrained Transformer into a more efficient hybrid model through distillation offers a promising approach to reducing inference costs.
By Juan Gabriel Kostelec, Qinghai Guo
arXiv:2604. 10688v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: On-policy reinforcement learning has become the dominant paradigm for reasoning alignment in large language models, yet its sparse, outcome-level rewards make token-level credit assignment notoriously difficult.
By Binbin Zheng, Xing Ma, Yiheng Liang, Jingqing Ruan, Xiaoliang Fu, Kepeng Lin, Benchang Zhu, Ke Zeng, Xunliang Cai
arXiv:2606. 25178v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has been extended from single-domain training to multi-domain reasoning suites spanning mathematics, programming, and science.
By Yongjin Yang, Jiarui Liu, Yinghui He, Lechen Zhang, Bernhard Sch\"olkopf, Zhijing Jin
arXiv:2606. 12171v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Knowledge Distillation (KD) and mixup have proven effective at inducing smoothness in class boundaries; KD captures inherent class relationships in probability distributions, and mixup enforces them through convex combinations of inputs.
By Jos\'e Medina, Paul Honeine, Abdelaziz Bensrhair, Amnir Hadachi
arXiv:2606. 23897v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Prompt distillation compresses large vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP into lightweight student models by matching teacher predictions on unlabeled domain images.
By Ahmad Algadhi, Ahmed Alzuhair, Omar Alkhulaif, Muzammil Behzad
arXiv:2603. 05361v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: 9-1-1 call-taking training requires mastery of over a thousand interdependent skills, covering diverse incident types and protocol-specific nuances.
By Zirong Chen, Hongchao Zhang, Meiyi Ma
arXiv:2607. 08255v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models increasingly serve as teachers generating training data for smaller students.
By Miseong Shawn Kim
arXiv:2608. 13156v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pre-norm is the standard normalization placement in modern Transformers because it facilitates joint optimization of full-depth models.
By Sheng Ren, Yadong Wang, Naiqiang Tan, Jiangang Kong, Jun Fang, Rui Liu, Jun Wang, Kai Chen, Lipeng Liang, Xiang Chen