arXiv:2606. 06178v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) present a trade-off between performance and cost, where more powerful models incur greater expense.
By Jiahao Zeng, Ming Tang, Ningning Ding
arXiv:2602. 10226v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Optimizing large-scale machine learning systems, such as recommendation models for global video platforms, requires navigating a massive hyperparameter search space and, more critically, designing sophisticated optimizers, architectures, and reward functions to capture nuanced user behaviors.
By Haochen Wang, Yi Wu, Daryl Chang, Li Wei, Lukasz Heldt
arXiv:2608. 13940v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI research agents (AIRA) can now propose, implement, and evaluate their own machine learning experiments, but progress on frontier tasks is throttled by cost: a candidate solution can be written in minutes, whereas evaluating it can take hours to days of GPU time.
By Thomas Simon Foster, Bassel Al Omari, Tingchen Fu, Thomas Mann, Carl Domond, Lucia Cipolina-Kun, Bhavul Gauri, Muna Aghamelu, Alexander D. Goldie, Eryk Helenowski, Jean-Christophe Gagnon-Audet, Alberto Pepe, Saba Nazir, Daniel Izcovich, Noam Levi, Rishi Hazra, Karen Hambardzumyan, Nicolas Baldwin, Xian Li, Martin Josifoski, Paris Giampouras, Masoud Jalili Sabet, Anya Sims, Hela Momand, Tatiana Shavrina, Despoina Magka, Jason Weston, Yulin Wang, Anirudh Goyal, Jo\~ao Henriques, Yoram Bachrach, Emily McMilin, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster
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:2602. 07298v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) represent a promising frontier for recommender systems, yet their development has been impeded by the absence of predictable scaling laws, which are crucial for guiding research and optimizing resource allocation.
By Benyu Zhang, Qiang Zhang, Jianpeng Cheng, Hong-You Chen, Qifei Wang, Wei Sun, Shen Li, Jia Li, Jiahao Wu, Qunshu Zhang, Neeraj Bhatia, Xiangjun Fan, Hong Yan
arXiv:2509. 03647v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) increasingly serve as automated evaluators, yet they suffer from "self-preference bias": a tendency to favor their own outputs over those of other models.
By Dani Roytburg, Matthew Bozoukov, Matthew Nguyen, Jou Barzdukas, Simon Fu, Narmeen Oozeer
arXiv:2603. 23433v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: AI agents are becoming active decision-makers on the Internet.
By Giulio Frey, Kawin Ethayarajh
arXiv:2608. 11342v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is a standard approach for adapting LLMs to a target distribution, but in settings such as personalization, where each author requires separate weight access, optimization, storage, and retraining, its costs become prohibitive.
By Bohan Zhang, Anqi Ni, Yixin Wang, Paramveer S. Dhillon
arXiv:2606. 10706v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Resource constraints increasingly determine what can be trained, fine-tuned, and deployed in large language models (LLMs), yet efficiency is often studied through isolated techniques rather than as an interacting system of limits.
By Vanessa Schmidt, Huy Hoang Nguyen, C\'edric Jung, Shirin Salehi, Anke Schmeink
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:2607. 20471v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalization, the act of varying a message to induce action from a specific receiver while keeping sender, channel, and time fixed, has a long tradition in psychology and marketing as a two-party problem in which sender and receiver have independent objectives.
By Ashutosh Srivastava, Siddharth Yedlapati, Vinay Aggarwal, Yaman Kumar Singla, Shashwat Dixit, Jitendra Ajmera, Balaji Krishnamurthy