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
Jun 6

Towards Generalization of Block Attention via Automatic Segmentation and Block Distillation

arXiv:2605. 15913v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Block attention, which processes the input as separate blocks that cannot attend to one another, offers significant potential to improve KV cache reuse in long-context scenarios such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).

By Shuaiyi Li, Zhisong Zhang, Yan Wang, Lei Zhu, Dongyang Ma, Chenlong Deng, Yang Deng, Wai Lam
arXiv AI
Jun 6

From Scoring to Explanations: Evaluating SHAP and LLM Rationales for Rubric-based Teaching Quality Assessment

arXiv:2606. 05180v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated scoring models are increasingly used to assign rubric-based quality ratings to complex language performances, including classroom transcripts, yet they typically provide little insight into why a particular score is produced.

By Ivo Bueno, Babette B\"uhler, Philipp Stark, Tim F\"utterer, Ulrich Trautwein, Dorottya Demszky, Heather Hill, Enkelejda Kasneci
arXiv AI
Jun 6

A Study of LLMs' Preferences for Libraries and Programming Languages

arXiv:2503. 17181v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite the rapid progress of large language models (LLMs) in code generation, existing evaluations focus on functional correctness or syntactic validity, overlooking how LLMs make critical design choices such as which library or programming language to use.

By Lukas Twist, Mark Harman, Don Syme, Joost Noppen, Helen Yannakoudakis, Detlef Nauck, Jie M. Zhang
arXiv AI
Jun 6

Causal Scaffolding for Physical Reasoning: A Benchmark for Causally-Informed Physical World Understanding in VLMs

arXiv:2606. 05966v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding and reasoning about the physical world is the foundation of intelligent behavior, yet state-of-the-art vision-language models (VLMs) still fail at causal physical reasoning, often producing plausible but incorrect answers.

By Tianyi Tang, Zhuoyi Lin, Zeyu Feng, Tianyi Ma, Yew-Soon Ong, Ivor Tsang, Haiyan Yin
arXiv AI
Jun 6

FUSAR-GPT : A Spatiotemporal Feature-Embedded and Two-Stage Decoupled Visual Language Model for SAR Imagery

arXiv:2602. 19190v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Research on the intelligent interpretation of all-weather, all-time Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is crucial for advancing remote sensing applications.

By Xiaokun Zhang, Yi Yang, Ziqi Ye, Baiyun, Xiaorong Guo, Qingchen Fang, Ruyi Zhang, Xinpeng Zhou, Haipeng Wang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5

Automated Proving of Shannon-Type Entropy Inequalities via Fine-Tuned Language Models and Guided Tree Search

arXiv:2606. 05729v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Proving Shannon-type entropy inequalities is a fundamental task in information theory that often requires constructing non-trivial linear combinations of known constraints, which is a combinatorial search problem that scales poorly with the number of random variables.

By Shing Yin Wong, Shaocheng Liu, Linqi Song, Amin Gohari, Cheuk Ting Li