arXiv:2604. 13627v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is a common first stage of LLM post-training, teaching the model to follow instructions and shaping its behavior as a helpful assistant.
By Mark Rofin, Aditya Varre, Nicolas Flammarion
arXiv:2606. 01155v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scaling laws for dense LLMs under infinite data are well explored, but how sparsity interacts with limited data is not.
By Boqian Wu, Qiao Xiao, Patrik Okanovic, Tomasz Sternal, Maurice van Keulen, Mykola Pechenizkiy, Elena Mocanu, Torsten Hoefler, Decebal Constantin Mocanu
Large hyperparameter sweeps for deep neural networks spend substantial compute on configurations that are effectively doomed from the first few epochs. We study whether a single training run's own early telemetry - per-epoch loss, training accuracy, gradient signal-to-noise ratio, weight-norm growth, and an activation-saturation snapshot - together with its sampled hyperparameters, can predict that run's eventual outcome without reference to other runs.
arXiv:2606. 00888v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dynamic Sparse Training (DST) offers a promising paradigm for improving the training and inference efficiency of deep neural networks; however, we find that in large language model training, DST can suffer from optimization instability, manifested as loss spikes after topology updates.
By Qiao Xiao, Boqian Wu, Patrik Okanovic, Tomasz Sternal, Maurice van Keulen, Elena Mocanu, Mykola Pechenizkiy, Decebal Constantin Mocanu, Torsten Hoefler
arXiv:2602. 16224v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Time series data are prone to noise in various domains, and training samples may contain low-predictability patterns that deviate from the normal data distribution, leading to training instability or convergence to poor local minima.
By Xu Zhang, Peng Wang, Yichen Li, Wei Wang
arXiv:2606. 06418v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many modern applications of deep learning involve training a neural network via a one-step prediction loss (e.
By Thomas T. Zhang, Alok Shah, Yifei Zhang, Vincent Zhang, Nikolai Matni, Max Simchowitz