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
1d ago

FedPA-LoRA: Product-Aligned Framework for Mitigating Aggregation and Initialization Errors in Heterogeneous Federated LoRA

arXiv:2608. 15381v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) enables efficient federated fine-tuning of large language models, but its factorized parameterization creates a tension between accurate aggregation of local updates and continuity of locally optimized factors.

By Juseok Jeon, Ramy E. Ali, Doyun Kwon, Myungbeom Her, Jinhwi Kim, Jinhyun So
arXiv AI
1d ago

FZ-VLM: A Two Stage Florence-Zephyr Vision Language Model Framework for Pulmonary Nodule Characterization and Clinical Decision Making

arXiv:2608. 15004v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Lung cancer remains one of the leading causes of cancer-related mortality worldwide, and Computed Tomography (CT) is a primary imaging tool for screening and followup assessment.

By Pramit Dutta, Jenita Manokaran, Richa Mittal, Ryan Appleby, Eranga Ukwatta
arXiv Machine Learning
1d ago

Multi-Feature Riemannian Hypergraph for Online Test-Time Adaptation of Motor Imagery Brain-Computer Interface

arXiv:2608. 16134v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In clinical motor imagery brain-computer interface (MI-BCI) decoding, cross-day transferability and online operation remain two critical challenges.

By Siqi Li (Peking University, Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing), Zhi Li (NeuCyber Neurotech), Tong Liu (NeuCyber Neurotech), Shuai Zhang (NeuCyber Neurotech), Yanfei Jia (Beijing Medical University), Zhiqiang Yi (Beijing Medical University), Jue Xie (NeuCyber Neurotech), Ni Ji (Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing)
arXiv AI
1d ago

Listen, Reason, and Segment: Aligning LALMs with Editorial Judgment for Media Chapterization

arXiv:2608. 16539v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) have made rapid progress on standardized benchmarks, yet their deployment in practical media workflows, curation, archival indexing, and content distribution remains largely unrealized.

By Tony Alex, Wish Suharitdamrong, Sara Atito, Armin Mustafa, Muhammad Awais, Philip J. B. Jackson, Jiankang Deng, Ismail Elezi
arXiv Machine Learning
1d ago

CodeQuant: Unified Clustering and Quantization for Enhanced Outlier Smoothing in Low-Precision Mixture-of-Experts

arXiv:2604. 10496v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Outliers have emerged as a fundamental bottleneck in preserving accuracy for low-precision large models, particularly within Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures that are increasingly central to large-scale language modeling.

By Xiangyang Yin, Xingyu Liu, Tianhua Xia, Bo Bao, Vithursan Thangarasa, Valavan Manohararajah, Eric Sather, Sai Qian Zhang
arXiv AI
1d ago

Toward AI-Friendly Cartography: Understanding How Color Design Influences Foundation Model Spatial Reasoning on Sequential Choropleth Maps

arXiv:2608. 15736v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation models (FMs) increasingly support multimodal and geospatial reasoning, yet it remains unclear whether cartographic principles designed for human perception are equally effective for machines.

By Yonghe Sun, Zhenjia Liu, Hua Liao, Wenjia Xu, Nai Yang, Weihua Dong, Zhiwei Wei
arXiv AI
1d ago

UI-Mate: Advancing Open-Weight Foundation GUI Agents with In-Context Demonstrations

arXiv:2608. 15930v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation GUI agents can automate complex digital tasks, but deployment is hindered by scarce and biased training data, ambiguous prompts, and unreliable execution.

By Zihan Ding, Longxu Dou, Qi Gao, Xiangwu Guo, Shengchao Hu, Zilong Huang, Zihang Jiang, Lei Ke, Mengcheng Lan, Weixian Lei, Hanxuan Li, Honglin Li, Xiyun Li, Zaitang Li, Leowei Liang, Xin Luo, Haozhe Ma, Jiayi Mao, Zhoujie Pan, Can Qin, Tianyuan Qu, Weiqi Wang, Wenkai Wang, Yonglin Wang, Yuxin Wang, Chenxu Wu, Yingchen Yu, Chenyu Zhang, Yuhao Zheng
arXiv AI
1d ago

ReasonCast: Agentic Demand Forecasting with Selective Semantic Reasoning

arXiv:2608. 15291v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Demand forecasting increasingly requires combining two complementary sources of information: historical sales reveal recurring numerical dynamics, while future promotions, holidays, price changes, and platform interventions provide forward-looking knowledge.

By Ziyue Yang, Chaolin Xu, Yijing Wang, Tiankai Gu, Hui Yang, Yanhong Lin, Kaiyuan Liu, Fei Xiao
arXiv AI
1d ago

Inference-Time Mitigation of Adversarial Political Bias in Large Language Models

arXiv:2608. 14629v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) become the mainstay for information retrieval and summarization tasks, ensuring that they are always non-partisan and invulnerable to political bias is a critical step towards safer and more trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI).

By Tejaswi V. Panchagnula, Bruce Coburn, Bryce J. Dietrich, Robert X. Browning, Edward J. Delp, Fengqing Zhu
arXiv AI
1d ago

Take it Personally: The Limits of General SSL Representations for Real-Life PPG Emotion Detection

arXiv:2608. 14675v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) effectively extracts general representations from noisy, unconstrained physiological signals such as photoplethysmography (PPG), its suitability for highly subjective tasks remains unproven.

By Dominika Kunc, Przemys{\l}aw Kazienko, Stanis{\l}aw Saganowski
arXiv AI
1d ago

PhaseLoRA: Control-Regime-Conditioned Low-Rank Adaptation for Continuous-Action Vision-Language-Action Policies

arXiv:2608. 15285v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) is a natural way to adapt pretrained vision-language-action (VLA) policies, but most adapter designs apply temporally static updates throughout a control rollout, overlooking the phase-dependent nature of continuous-action manipulation.

By Yufei Guo, Yinan Wu, Haoran Duan, Guiguang Ding, Jungong Han
arXiv AI
1d ago

Kozuchi Agent: A Language-Agnostic Open-Weight Agent for Software Repair

arXiv:2608. 15579v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Industrial software-engineering teams increasingly need LLM agents that turn bug reports into correct patches, yet benchmark-scale operation adds long horizons, tool-use discipline, context persistence, heterogeneous clusters, and evaluation reuse.

By Mehdi Bahrami, Kosaku Kimura, Satoshi Munakata, Satoshi Nakashima, Yu Ishikawa, Kosuke Maeda, Nao Soma, Kenichi Kobayashi, Keisuke Miyazaki, Keizo Kato, Shigeki Fukuta, Tatsuo Kumano, Nobutaka Imamura, Kevin Musgrave, Shahbaz Abdul Khader, Kwun Ho Ngan, Joe Townsend, Fayas Asharindavida, Matthieu Parizy, Akira Sakai, Yuma Ichikawa, Yang Zhao, Michiaki Takizawa, Taku Fukui, Hiroki Ohtsuji, Wei-Peng Chen, Hiromichi Kobashi