The paper introduces BRIDGE, a method for efficient instruction tuning of large language models that jointly selects prompt context and response supervision. BRIDGE uses a shared validation-directed interaction surrogate to evaluate token utility conditioned on the other side’s retained state, and employs budgeted alternating selection and structure-aware projection to produce coherent supervision spans. Experiments across three model families show BRIDGE outperforms independent selection methods in mathematical reasoning, code generation, and instruction following, with its advantage increasing as compression grows.
arXiv:2608. 06819v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Token-level collaboration allows a large language model (LLM) to assist a small language model (SLM) when their predictions diverge.
arXiv:2607. 06974v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) increasingly improve their reasoning at test time via additional computation, yet most existing works treat each problem in isolation.
arXiv:2607. 01792v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While decoder-only LLMs excel at a vast array of natural language tasks, it suffers from an asymmetric information flow induced by causal attention: later tokens are richer in contextual grounding than earlier ones.
While decoder-only LLMs excel at a vast array of natural language tasks, it suffers from an asymmetric information flow induced by causal attention: later tokens are richer in contextual grounding than earlier ones. A simple and effective remedy is prompt repetition -- just appending a second copy of prompt before generation can redistribute grounding across positions and improve reasoning performance.
arXiv:2602. 14696v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Instruction fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) often involves selecting a subset of instruction training data from a large candidate pool, using a small query set from the target task.
arXiv:2607. 28657v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) often require carefully crafted prompts to unlock their full potential, which can be a barrier for non-expert users.
arXiv:2606.12234v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Controlling the output of Large Language Models (LLMs) is a central challenge for their reliable deployment, yet a clear understanding of the invol...
arXiv:2608.29352v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) still exhibit limited capability in following complex instructions. While existing approaches often rely on preference lea...
Large language models (LLMs) increasingly improve their reasoning at test time via additional computation, yet most existing works treat each problem in isolation. When problems arrive sequentially, accumulating reusable experience across them can further improve performance.
arXiv:2607. 25659v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rubric-based reinforcement learning enriches language model training by evaluating model outputs against explicit criteria.
arXiv:2607. 08399v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models process prompts by propagating activations through dozens of layers before generating a response.
arXiv:2606. 07000v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent post-training methods, particularly Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR), have significantly enhanced the reasoning ability of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs).