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 Machine Learning
Aug 11

Transfer Learning-Enabled Distortion Compensation for Amplitude-Phase-Time Block Modulation-Based Nonlinear Single-Carrier Wireless Communications

arXiv:2608. 08554v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Power amplifier (PA) nonlinearity and memory effects significantly limit the spectral compliance, reliability, and energy efficiency of communication systems.

By Guoxing Duan, Min Fan, Cheng Yi, Bensheng Yang, Wei Xu, Haiming Wang, Xiaohu You
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

Diagnosing as Cardiologists Do: ECG Agents with Doctor-Grounded Priors for Clinical Reasoning Across Diseases and Populations

arXiv:2608. 09053v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cardiologists interpret electrocardiograms by localizing waveform components, measuring rhythm and interval patterns, and translating these structured observations into diagnostic evidence.

By Hongxiang Gao, He-yang Xu, Yuwen Li, Minghui Zhao, Zhipeng Cai, Xingyao Wang, Chenxi Yang, Jianqing Li, Chengyu Liu
arXiv AI
Aug 11

ChronoState: Hidden Elapsed-Time Conditioning for Temporal-State Action Selection in Frozen-Backbone Language Models

arXiv:2608. 09124v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Temporal decisions in language-model systems often depend on both symbolic task state and elapsed wall-clock time, such as cache expiration, job completion, quota resets, deadlines, or stale sessions.

By Sam Siavoshian, Omar Ramadan, Amir K. Saeed, Benjamin A. Johnson, Amin Mohamed El-Amin Diab, Benjamin M. Rodriguez
arXiv AI
Aug 11

Collaborative Multi-Agent Scripts Generation for Enhancing Imperfect-Information Reasoning in Murder Mystery Games

arXiv:2604. 11741v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in perceptual tasks, yet they degrade in complex multi-hop reasoning under multiplayer game settings with imperfect and deceptive information.

By Keyang Zhong, Junlin Xie, Hefeng Wu, Haofeng Li, Guanbin Li
arXiv AI
Aug 11

FinTrace: Holistic Trajectory-Level Evaluation of LLM Tool Calling for Long-Horizon Financial Tasks

arXiv:2604. 10015v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent studies demonstrate that tool-calling capability enables large language models (LLMs) to interact with external environments for long-horizon financial tasks.

By Yupeng Cao, Haohang Li, Weijin Liu, Wenbo Cao, Anke Xu, Lingfei Qian, Xueqing Peng, Minxue Tang, Zhiyuan Yao, Jimin Huang, K. P. Subbalakshmi, Zining Zhu, Jordan W. Suchow, Yangyang Yu
arXiv AI
Aug 11

STEMMA: An Adversarial Multi-Agent Framework for Evaluating Self-Identity Consistency in LLMs

arXiv:2608. 08164v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Knowledge Distillation is a widely adopted technique in the training and fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) enabling transfer of structured information and functional behavior from a large teacher model to a smaller student model while significantly reducing computational costs.

By Nuthakki Siva Gopala Krishna, Kanishka Jain
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

Wrong Design Intent Is Worse Than Never Conditioning: A Derangement-Control Diagnosis of Header Conditioning in CAD Program Completion

arXiv:2607. 23191v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Fine-tuned code LLMs are routinely conditioned on a design-intent specification, but the correctness axis of such a signal -- a wrong intent rather than an absent one -- has not been tested, and the benefit of conditioning is usually scored with the same detector that defines the signal.

By Yang Xiao