arXiv:2606. 10125v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Few-shot example retrieval is the dominant paradigm for grounding large language models (LLMs) in domain-specific text-to-SQL systems.
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arXiv:2509. 15676v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In-context learning (ICL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for adapting large language models (LLMs) to new and data-scarce tasks using only a few carefully selected task-specific examples presented in the prompt.
Loss-Based Active Learning for Neural Abstractive Summarization proposes LOBSTER, an active learning framework that selects unlabeled documents similar to the model’s high‑loss training examples to correct specific weaknesses. The method is tailored for abstractive summarization, addressing instability and computational bottlenecks seen in prior work. Experiments on three benchmark datasets and two backbone models show that LOBSTER matches or surpasses state‑of‑the‑art performance while speeding up query selection by up to 665×.
arXiv:2606. 29328v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) typically treats context selection as ranking chunks against a single query embedding.
The paper introduces a federated active learning (FAL) approach that tackles data privacy and label scarcity by coordinating query selection across clients. In low-budget scenarios, it finds that homogeneous (IID) data actually requires stronger coordination to avoid redundant queries, while heterogeneous data naturally yields diversity—a reversal of the usual federated learning narrative. The authors propose a new framework that aligns client data in a shared embedding space via federated representation learning, enabling globally coordinated active selection while keeping annotations local, and demonstrate that this method outperforms existing FAL methods even with larger annotation budgets.
arXiv:2607. 02423v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Active Few-Shot Learning (AFSL) adapts LLMs to specialized domains by identifying the most valuable unlabeled samples for annotation and use as few-shot demonstrations, effectively reducing human annotation costs while promoting high performance.
arXiv:2606. 07630v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-world datasets across image and text domains are often characterized by skewed class distributions and noisy annotations, which jointly degrade model performance, particularly on minority classes.