arXiv:2602. 05988v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Pre-training Large Language Models (LLMs) on web-scale datasets becomes fundamental for advancing general-purpose AI.
By Keith Ando Ogawa, Bruno Lopes Yamamoto, Lucas Lauton de Alcantara, Lucas Pellicer, Rosimeire Pereira Costa, Edson Bollis, Anna Helena Reali Costa, Artur Jordao
arXiv:2607. 11940v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As the scale of large pre-trained models continues to grow, fine-tuning them under limited memory budgets has become increasingly challenging.
By Gengyu Zhang, Haiyin Ran, Zhengbao He, Yuhang Liu, Hanling Tian, Zhehao Huang, Xiaolin Huang
arXiv:2606. 31397v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: State-based fine-tuning has emerged as a compelling alternative to weight-based adaptation for transformers, updating lightweight controls into states rather than model weights, offering substantial memory savings while retaining parameter efficiency.
By Duc Anh Nguyen, Tien Ngoc Luu, Tung Pham, Toan Tran
arXiv:2607. 10593v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Normalization is a critical component for stabilizing Transformer training, yet the choice between static strategies such as Layer Normalization (LN) and adaptive alternatives remains largely task-dependent.
By Piyush Kaushik Bhattacharyya, Divyanshu Rai, Swastik Singh, Kumar Aakash, Ayush Ranjan, Krutika Verma
arXiv:2606. 04048v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Training and scaling Large Language Models demand enormous computational resources, motivating both efficient sub-quadratic architectures and principled hyperparameter tuning methods.
By Yifeng Liu, Quanquan Gu
arXiv:2606. 05516v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Zeroth-order (ZO) optimization enables memory-efficient fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) using only forward passes, but it remains unclear how useful adaptation is distributed across layers.
By Wanhao Yu, Ziyan Wang, Zheng Wang, Abeer Matar Almalky, Yihang Zuo, Shuteng Niu, Sen Lin, Adnan Siraj Rakin, Deliang Fan, Li Yang