The paper investigates whether in‑context learning (ICL) can replace instruction tuning for multilingual language models, especially as model size varies. It highlights the difficulty of obtaining high‑quality instruction data in multilingual settings and compares the performance of ICL versus instruction‑tuned models. The findings show that a performance gap persists between the two approaches, suggesting the need for further research to close it.
By David Ponce, Thierry Etchegoyhen
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:2606. 09525v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: During instruction fine-tuning (IFT), large language models (LLMs) learn to follow instructions by using the provided context to answer a query.
By Nadya Yuki Wangsajaya, Haeun Yu, Isabelle Augenstein
arXiv:2507. 04221v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce Context Tuning, a simple and effective method to significantly enhance few-shot adaptation of large language models (LLMs) without weight updates.
By Jack Lu, Ryan Teehan, Zhenbang Yang, Mengye Ren
arXiv:2606. 29407v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: There has been increasing interest in exploring the capabilities of advanced large language models (LLMs) in the field of information extraction (IE), specifically focusing on tasks related to named entity recognition (NER) and relation extraction (RE).
By Xiao You, Tianwei Yan, Shan Zhao
arXiv:2606. 00014v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Although studies have demonstrated that Large Language Models (LLMs) can perform well on Out-of-Distribution (OOD) tasks, their advantage tends to diminish as the distribution shift becomes more severe.
By Hao Xu, Rite Bo, Fausto Giunchiglia, Yingji Li, Rui Song
arXiv:2606. 18620v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing information extraction (IE) tasks increasingly adopt in-context learning (ICL) with large language models.
By Haoliang Liu, Chengkun Cai, Xu Zhao, Han Zhu, Shizhou Huang, Xinglin Zhang, Tao Chen, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Zhang Huaping, Lei Li
The paper investigates the relationship between a large language model’s internal probability distribution and its verbalized confidence statements. By systematically manipulating training and in‑context data, the authors show that both internal and verbalized probabilities are influenced by distributional and asserted uncertainty in the data. They find that verbalized probabilities align with internal ones beyond what would be expected if they tracked the same sources independently, indicating that verbalized confidence can serve as a probe of the model’s internal distribution.
By Sinead Williamson, Jiaxuan Li, Nick Foti, Russ Webb, Masha Fedzechkina
The paper introduces Knowledge-Weighted Fine‑Tuning, a method that estimates an instance‑level knowledge score through multi‑sampled inference and uses it to scale the learning signal. This approach encourages large language models to explicitly say "I don't know" on out‑of‑scope queries while preserving accuracy on known questions. The authors also propose new evaluation metrics for uncertainty, demonstrating that better discrimination between known and unknown instances improves overall performance.
By Joosung Lee, Hwiyeol Jo, Donghyeon Ko, Kyubyung Chae, Cheonbok Park, Jeonghoon Kim
arXiv:2608. 05813v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalizing language models (LMs) to individual user preferences is essential for aligning responses with diverse goals and backgrounds.
By Gihoon Kim, Jeyoung Lee, Suhan Woo, Sekwon Oh, Minsu Jeon, Hyounsoo Han, Euntai Kim
arXiv:2603. 18446v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Long-context inference remains challenging for large language models due to attention dilution and out-of-distribution degradation.
By Lang Zhou, Shuxuan Li, Zhuohao Li, Shi Liu, Zhilin Zhao, Wei-Shi Zheng