arXiv:2604. 18827v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Scaling data and artificial neural networks has transformed AI, driving breakthroughs in language and vision.
By Konstantin F. Willeke, Polina Turishcheva, Alex Gilbert, Goirik Chakrabarty, Hasan A. Bedel, Paul G. Fahey, Yongrong Qiu, Marissa A. Weis, Michaela Vystr\v{c}ilov\'a, Taliah Muhammad, Lydia Ntanavara, Rachel E. Froebe, Kayla Ponder, Zheng Huan Tan, Emin Orhan, Erick Cobos, Sophia Sanborn, Katrin Franke, Fabian H. Sinz, Alexander S. Ecker, Andreas S. Tolias
arXiv:2506. 14126v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern deep learning is increasingly characterized by the use of open-weight foundation models that can be fine-tuned on specialized datasets.
By Stefan Horoi, Guy Wolf, Eugene Belilovsky, Gintare Karolina Dziugaite
The paper introduces SynPro, a synthetic data generation framework that augments limited organic text for large language model pretraining by applying rephrasing and reformatting operations. SynPro’s generators are optimized with reinforcement learning rewards for quality, faithfulness, and data influence, and are updated continuously as training plateaus. Experiments on 400M, 1.1B, and 2B models show that SynPro can unlock 3.4–5.2× the effective tokens of standard repetition, even outperforming a non‑data‑bound oracle at larger scales.
By Zichun Yu, Chenyan Xiong
arXiv:2602. 17743v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In-context learning (ICL) allows large language models to adapt to new tasks from a few examples without updating their parameters.
By Di Zhang, Ningxu Zhang, Zimeng Liu
arXiv:2604. 09670v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Intelligent systems must maintain and manipulate task-relevant information online to adapt to dynamic environments and changing goals.
By Hua-Dong Xiong, Li Ji-An, Jiaqi Huang, Robert C. Wilson, Kwonjoon Lee, Xue-Xin Wei
arXiv:2607. 25271v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Classical compute-optimal scaling laws assume an unbounded supply of fresh pretraining data, yet pretraining is increasingly entering a regime in which compute grows faster than the availability of high-quality data.
By Tian Qin, Kimia Hamidieh, David Alvarez-Melis