arXiv AI

DynamixSFT: Dynamic Mixture Optimization of Instruction Tuning Collections

arXiv:2508. 12116v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As numerous instruction-tuning datasets continue to emerge, dynamically balancing and optimizing their mixtures has become a critical challenge.

arXiv AI
Jun 16

FastMix: Fast Data Mixture Optimization via Gradient Descent

arXiv:2606. 14971v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While large and diverse datasets have driven recent advances in large models, identifying the optimal data mixture for pre-training and post-training remains a significant open problem.

By Haoru Tan, Sitong Wu, Yanfeng Chen, Jun Xia, Ruobing Xie, Bin Xia, Xingwu Sun, Xiaojuan Qi
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Efficient Weighted Sampling via Score-based Generative Models

arXiv:2502. 04646v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Weighted sampling -- sampling from a probability density function (PDF) proportional to the product of a base PDF and a weight function -- is a fundamental technique with wide-ranging applications in variance reduction, biased sampling, data augmentation, and more.

By Heasung Kim, Taekyun Lee, Hyeji Kim, Gustavo de Veciana
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 26

Target-Aware Bandit Allocation for Scalable Surrogate Optimization in Chemical Space

arXiv:2606. 26657v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Identifying high-utility candidates from massive discrete spaces under expensive evaluations is a recurring challenge across the sciences, with structure-based drug discovery as a prominent example.

By Mohammad Haddadnia, Yuvan Chali, Abhilash Jayaraj, Constance Kraay, Joana Reis, Felix Strieth-Kalthoff, Haribabu Arthanari
arXiv AI
4d ago

Challenges and Solutions for Bandits in the Wild: Warm-Started Mixture Bandits for Cross-Cohort Slate Recommendation

arXiv:2609.37800v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many recommender services repeatedly encounter cold-start cohorts, where new users arrive with little or no interaction history. This creates two cha...

By Serafima Lebedeva, Sumantrak Mukherjee, Ali Arshad Sadal, Ilias Ek\c{s}i, Rahul Sharma, Julia Mueller, Theresa Dombrowski, Jakob Karolus, Viktor Bengs, Eyke H\"ullermeier, Sebastian Vollmer
arXiv Computation and Language
3d ago

DataFlex: A Unified Framework for Data-Centric Dynamic Training of Large Language Models

arXiv:2603.26164v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Data-centric training has emerged as a promising direction for improving large language models (LLMs) by optimizing not only model parameters...

By Hao Liang, Zhengyang Zhao, Mingrui Chen, Meiyi Qiang, Lu Ma, Rongyi Yu, Hengyi Feng, Shixuan Sun, Zimo Meng, Xiaochen Ma, Xuanlin Yang, Qifeng Cai, Ruichuan An, Bohan Zeng, Zhen Hao Wong, Chengyu Shen, Runming He, Zhaoyang Han, Yaowei Zheng, Fangcheng Fu, Conghui He, Bin Cui, Zhiyu Li, Weinan E, Wentao Zhang
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

GRAPE: Gradient Refinement and Progress-Aware Exploitation for Query-Efficient High-Dimensional Bayesian Optimization

GRAPE is a two‑stage Bayesian optimization framework that first refines the local gradient posterior using a closed‑form acquisition function and then selects update directions by maximizing expected decrease conditioned on descent. The authors prove that the refinement stage monotonically reduces local uncertainty and that the progress‑aware direction converges to true steepest descent as the posterior sharpens. Empirical results show GRAPE achieves a 5.4× speedup on black‑box adversarial attacks and reduces final average regret by 3.8 log‑units on large language model prompt‑optimization tasks.

By Richard Cornelius Suwandi, Feng Yin