Fine-tuning and adaptation

LoRA, PEFT, instruction tuning and domain adaptation — adapting a pretrained model without paying to train one.

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arXiv AI
Jul 2

A Two-stage Transformer Framework for Temporal Localization of Distracted Driver Behaviors

arXiv:2603. 21048v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The identification of hazardous driving behaviors from in-cabin video streams is essential for enhancing road safety and supporting the detection of traffic violations and unsafe driver actions.

By Gia-Bao Doan, Nam-Khoa Huynh, Minh-Nhat-Huy Ho, Khanh-Thanh-Khoa Nguyen, Thi-Thu-Hien Pham, Thanh-Hai Le
arXiv AI
Jul 2

FED-FSTQ: Fisher-Guided Token Quantization for Communication-Efficient Federated Fine-Tuning of LLMs on Edge Devices

arXiv:2604. 25421v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Federated fine-tuning provides a practical route to adapt large language models (LLMs) on edge devices without centralizing private data, yet in mobile deployments the training wall-clock is often bottlenecked by straggler-limited uplink communication under heterogeneous bandwidth and intermittent participation.

By Changyu Li, Shuanghong Huang, Jiashen Liu, Ming Lei, Jidu Xing, Kaishun Wu, Lu Wang, Fei Luo
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 2

Prototype Language Models

arXiv:2607. 00510v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowing which training examples drive outputs is fundamental to auditing, correcting, and understanding language models, yet for modern LLMs this remains expensive, approximate, and largely post-hoc.

By Dan Ley, Giang Nguyen, Himabindu Lakkaraju, Julius Adebayo
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 2

Message Passing Enables Efficient Reasoning

arXiv:2607. 01077v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While inference-time scaling has improved the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs), the need to generate long chains-of-thought (CoTs) is a computational bottleneck.

By Xuecheng Liu, Daman Arora, Gokul Swamy, Andrea Zanette
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 2

Information-Regularized Attention for Visual-Centric Reasoning

arXiv:2607. 00434v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have become a paradigm for multimodal learning, yet remain unstable due to object hallucination, weak visual grounding, and catastrophic forgetting after full-parameter instruction tuning.

By Guohao Sun, Xiaofang Wang, Yash Patel, Mengchen Liu, Zhiqiang Tao, Praveen Krishnan
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 2

The Model Organism Lottery: Model Organism Interpretability Strongly Depends on Training Methodology

arXiv:2607. 01033v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model organisms (MOs) - language models trained to exhibit undesired or unnatural behaviours - are frequently used as testbeds for evaluating white-box interpretability techniques.

By Andrzej Szablewski, Gabriel Konar-Steenberg, Raffaello Fornasiere, Nikita Menon, Stefan Heimersheim
arXiv AI
Jul 2

RetailSMV: Exocentric vs. Egocentric Adaptation of Foundation Video World Models in Retail

arXiv:2607. 00310v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foundation video diffusion models are increasingly viewed as world simulators for embodied agents, yet their pretraining on internet-scale generic video leaves them poorly aligned with real-world deployment domains.

By Amirreza Rouhi, Rajat Aggarwal, Parikshit Sakurikar, Anoop M. Namboodiri, Sashi P. Reddi