arXiv Machine Learning By Javier Mar\'in

APE: Selective Fine-tuning with Acceptance Criteria for Language Model Adaptation

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The paper introduces Adjacent Possible Exploration (APE), a selective fine‑tuning strategy for large language models that evaluates multiple parameter updates on small data subsets and accepts only those that surpass a performance threshold. APE draws on evolutionary optimization ideas to filter out destabilizing changes, contrasting with conventional single‑gradient fine‑tuning. Experiments on news summarization show a 33.9% BLEU gain and a 36.2% perplexity drop while keeping computational demands low.

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