Fine-tuning and adaptation

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

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Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 18

CFB-GBM v2.0: An Augmented Longitudinal Dataset for Multi-Modal Glioblastoma Segmentation, Radiomics, and RANO Progression Tracking

CFB-GBM v2.0 is an expanded longitudinal dataset of 264 glioblastoma patients, providing complete Gross Tumour Volume (GTV) delineations across all timepoints and derived volumetric RANO 2.0 response labels. The dataset includes brain masks, pre‑computed radiomic features, and WHO classification guidelines, all validated by radiation oncologists. It is publicly available on TCIA for use in computational methods for treatment response prediction and disease progression modeling.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 18

BrainNorm: A Foundation Model that knows Normal via Semantic Atlas Pretraining

BrainNorm is a normative foundation model trained on about 66,000 T1-weighted structural MRI scans. It uses language‑image style contrastive pretraining to create a Semantic Atlas Latent space (SAL), where each scan is encoded as atlas‑parcel embeddings that capture healthy aging trajectories. The model supports age‑consistent template matching, localized deviation scoring, and zero‑shot disease prediction, outperforming nine baselines across multiple downstream tasks and aligning its deviation patterns with known neurodegeneration pathology.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 18

PTXBench: Benchmark and Adapt LLMs for GPU Kernel Optimization with Architecture-specific PTX

PTXBench is a benchmark designed to evaluate and adapt large language models (LLMs) for GPU kernel optimization using architecture-specific PTX code. It assesses functional correctness, runtime execution of target instructions, and speedup over leading libraries on GEMM and attention workloads on H100 and B200 GPUs. The study finds uneven performance across models, especially on complex attention backward tasks, and shows that fine‑tuning Qwen3.6‑27B improves some tasks but generalization remains inconsistent.

arXiv AI
Aug 18

Adding Voice Cloning to Text-to-Audio-Video Models with a Single Zero-Initialised Layer

arXiv:2608. 15690v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text-to-audio-video (T2AV) generation models produce a video and its soundtrack from a textual description, but offer no control over whose voice speaks in the output.

By Ivan Mikheev, Viacheslav Vasilev, Anna Dmitrienko, Alexey Letunovskiy, Ivan Kirillov, Kirill Chernyshev, Denis Dimitrov
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 18

Turning spectra into images improves plant trait retrieval with 2D-CNNs

arXiv:2608. 16661v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hyperspectral reflectance spectroscopy enables non-destructive estimation of plant functional traits, yet current deep learning approaches process spectra as one-dimensional sequences, which limits how they capture long-range inter-band dependencies.

By Javier Lopatin, Teja Kattenborn, Eya Cherif, Sebasti\'an Moreno
arXiv AI
Aug 18

FluxBin: Flexible LUT-based Ultra-low-bit LLM Inference by Algorithm-Kernel Synergy

arXiv:2608. 15602v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While binary quantization theoretically promises extreme compression and acceleration for Large Language Models (LLMs), existing research often overlooks the necessity of specialized hardware kernels, thus failing to unleash the full acceleration potential due to persistent reliance on expensive floating-point arithmetic or runtime dequantization overheads.

By Qingyao Yang, Runming Yang, He Xiao, Wendong Xu, Junyu Chen, Haobo Liu, Chenchen Ding, Ruihan Hu, Yik-Chung Wu, Ngai Wong