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 15

Navigating the Mirage: A Dual-Path Agentic Framework for Robust Misleading Chart Question Answering

arXiv:2603. 28583v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite the success of Vision-Language Models (VLMs), misleading charts remain a significant challenge due to their deceptive visual structures and distorted data representations.

By Yanjie Zhang, Yafei Li, Rui Sheng, Zixin Chen, Yanna Lin, Huamin Qu, Lei Chen, Yushi Sun
arXiv AI
Jul 15

An Omnilingual-ASR-Based Speech-LLM System for the 2nd MLC-SLM Challenge

arXiv:2607. 12468v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We describe our submission to Task 1 of the 2nd MLCSLM Challenge: a cascaded diarization-then-recognition system that combines DiariZen-Large-s80 (WavLM-Large) segmentation, CAM++ embedding-based two-speaker clustering, and a LoRA-adapted omniASR LLM 7B v2 recognizer, with no oracle segmentation or speaker labels at test time.

By Shuming Fang, Shuifei Zeng
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 15

Mechanistic Evidence for Preserved-but-Misaligned Representations in Non-IID FedAvg

arXiv:2512. 23043v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Federated Averaging (FedAvg) often degrades under non-IID client data, but it remains unclear whether this degradation reflects the loss of client-learned representations or a failure to use representations that are still present.

By Muhammad Haseeb, Salaar Masood, Muhammad Abdullah Sohail, Mohammad Fatim Shoaib, Muhammad Tahir
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 15

Entropy-Preserving Supervised Fine-Tuning via Adaptive Self-Distillation for Large Reasoning Models

arXiv:2602. 02244v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The standard post-training recipe for large reasoning models, supervised fine-tuning followed by reinforcement learning (SFT-then-RL), may limit the benefits of the RL stage: while SFT imitates expert demonstrations, it often causes overconfidence and reduces generation diversity, leaving RL with a narrowed solution space to explore.

By Hao Wang, Hao Gu, Hongming Piao, Kaixiong Gong, Yuxiao Ye, Xiangyu Yue, Sirui Han, Yike Guo, Dapeng Wu
arXiv AI
Jul 15

Scaling Point-in-Time Language Models

arXiv:2607. 11889v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models trained on unrestricted internet corpora inevitably embed information from the future, introducing lookahead bias that compromises the validity of backtests and causal inference in finance and the social sciences.

By Bryan Kelly, Semyon Malamud, Johannes Schwab, Teng Andrea Xu
arXiv AI
Jul 15

From Reconstruction to Interpretation: Zero-Setup Multi-Phase Segmentation of X-ray Tomography Data

arXiv:2607. 12175v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: X-ray tomography enables nondestructive characterization of material microstructures, while advances in micro-CT imaging have accelerated volumetric data acquisition and reconstruction.

By Pradyumna Elavarthi, Arun J. Bhattacharjee, Harrison Lisabeth, Anca Ralescu, Petrus H. Zwart, Dilworth Parkinson, Elizabeth G. Clark