arXiv:2606. 19587v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose a scalable method for training prediction (machine learning) models in the predict-then-optimize paradigm, where model outputs serve as coefficients for a subsequent linear optimization task.
By Beichen Wan, Mo Liu
arXiv:2510. 06048v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Effective data selection is essential for pretraining large language models (LLMs), enhancing efficiency and improving generalization to downstream tasks.
By Jie Hao, Rui Yu, Wei Zhang, Huixia Wang, Jie Xu, Mingrui Liu
arXiv:2606. 05165v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training Data Attribution (TDA) seeks to trace a model's predictions back to its training data.
By Rishit Dagli, Abir Harrasse, Luke Zhang, Florent Draye, Amirali Abdullah, Bernhard Sch\"olkopf, Zhijing Jin
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:2602. 04879v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a cornerstone for fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs), with Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) serving as the de facto standard algorithm.
By Penghui Qi, Xiangxin Zhou, Zichen Liu, Tianyu Pang, Chao Du, Min Lin, Wee Sun Lee
arXiv:2601. 04710v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) achieves strong performance but is often limited by the memory overhead of backpropagation.
By Feihu Jin, Shipeng Cen, Ying Tan
arXiv:2606. 00399v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine unlearning aims to remove the influence of specific training samples while preserving the model's utility.
By Rasa Khosrowshahli, Stephen Asobiela, Beatrice Ombuki-Berman, Shahryar Rahnamayan
arXiv:2606. 28835v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) emerged as a promising distributed machine learning paradigm.
By Wenhao Yuan, Chenchen Lin, Jian Chen, Jinfeng Xu, Zewei Liu, Edith Cheuk Han Ngai
arXiv:2510. 05342v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has emerged as a simple and effective method for aligning large language models.
By Hyung Gyu Rho
arXiv:2607. 22769v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The training efficacy of large language models (LLMs) is fundamentally constrained by the quality and composition of training data.
By He Zhang
arXiv:2510. 16882v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is a commonly used technique to adapt large language models (LLMs) to downstream tasks.
By Heming Zou, Yixiu Mao, Yun Qu, Qi Wang, Xiangyang Ji
arXiv:2601. 09172v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly shape online content, removing targeted information from well-trained LLMs (also known as LLM unlearning) has become critical for web governance.
By Pengyang Shao, Naixin Zhai, Lei Chen, Yonghui Yang, Fengbin Zhu, Xun Yang, Meng Wang