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:2605. 21422v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As LLMs continue to scale up, improving training efficiency heavily relies on effective data utilization.
By Qihao Lin, Guanxu Chen, Dongrui Liu, Jing Shao
arXiv:2606. 19607v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Preference-based post-training has become a central paradigm for aligning language models.
By Jiangze Han, Vineet Goyal, Will Ma
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. 11189v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) typically maximizes the likelihood of every token in a demonstrated trajectory.
By Tong Xie, Yuanhao Ban, Yunqi Hong, Sohyun An, Yihang Chen, Cho-Jui Hsieh
arXiv:2607. 20465v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The quality of training data fundamentally determines the capabilities of large language models (LLMs), yet no unified benchmark exists to measure how well LLMs, agents, and data-centric workflows actually prepare training data end to end.
By Hao Liang, Qifeng Cai, Yibo Lin, Jianzhuo Du, Qifeng Xia, Sizhe Qiu, Linzhuang Sun, Meiyi Qiang, Zhaoyang Han, Xiaochen Ma, Bohan Zeng, Ruichuan An, Conghui He, Wentao Zhang
arXiv:2606. 02521v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: One-step text-to-image generators are attractive for deployment because they generate an image with a single forward pass, but preference finetuning them remains difficult: standard alignment methods often rely on policy likelihoods, denoising trajectories, differentiable reward gradients, or test-time optimization.
By Zhou Jiang, Yandong Wen, Zhen Liu
arXiv:2510. 26707v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As LLMs occupy an increasingly important role in society, they are more and more confronted with questions that require them not only to draw on their general knowledge but also to align with certain human value systems.
By Mehar Bhatia, Shravan Nayak, Gaurav Kamath, Marius Mosbach, Karolina Sta\'nczak, Vered Shwartz, Siva Reddy
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:2606. 07678v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safety alignment for large language models relies on preference data, but current pipelines often train on large, redundant datasets.
By Yi Nian, Tiankai Yang, Yudi Zhang, Qi Pan, Zelong Xu, Shenzhe Zhu, Qingqing Luan, Yue Huang, Xiangliang Zhang, Yue Zhao
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.
By Nihal V. Nayak, Paula Rodriguez-Diaz, Neha Hulkund, Sara Beery, David Alvarez-Melis
One-step text-to-image generators are attractive for deployment because they generate an image with a single forward pass, but preference finetuning them remains difficult: standard alignment methods often rely on policy likelihoods, denoising trajectories, differentiable reward gradients, or test-time optimization. We propose Drifting Preference Optimization (DrPO), an online preference-finetuning method for deterministic one-step generators.