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
Jul 7

CurateEvo: Data-Curation Evolving for Agentic Post-Training

Large language model (LLM) agents require post-training methods that can improve long-horizon decision making from environment feedback. However, existing agentic post-training pipelines often treat data curation as a fixed preprocessing step, focusing mainly on data augmentation while neglecting filtering, refinement, and adaptation to downstream failures.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 7

Is Domain Adaptation Always Helpful? A Frozen-Backbone Study of Cross-Domain Sentiment Transfer

Sentiment analysis with frozen pre-trained language model (PLM) backbones has become a common paradigm, yet the practical benefit of explicit domain adaptation remains unclear, particularly when backbones encode varying degrees of target-domain knowledge. We present a preliminary case study evaluating a controlled family of frozen embedding backbones (Qwen3-Embedding 0.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 7

AVA-VLM: Adaptive Visual Attention-Vision Language Model for In-the-Wild Construction Site Monitoring

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are promising for construction-site monitoring, and recent construction-tailored VLMs have primarily adapted pretrained VLMs through direct QA-style fine-tuning from a single global image. We argue that this direct paradigm remains limited for in-the-wild deployment in terms of operational range, reliability under reduced-resolution inputs, and inference efficiency.

arXiv AI
Jul 7

CogAdapt: Adapting Clinical ECG Foundation Models for Wearable Cognitive Load Assessment

arXiv:2605. 22774v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Assessing cognitive load continuously and at low latency would help adaptive human-computer interaction, but it remains hard because labeled data are scarce and models generalize poorly across subjects.

By Amir Mousavi, Erfan Nourbakhsh, Mohammad Sadegh Sirjani, Mimi Xie, Rocky Slavin, Leslie Neely, John Davis, John Quarles
arXiv AI
Jul 7

STELLA: Efficient Sensor-to-LLM Translation for On-Device Human Activity Recognition

arXiv:2607. 03089v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: HAR is increasingly expected to run continuously on edge devices, yet recent LLM-based methods remain hard to deploy: raw sensor prompts are long, cloud inference adds latency and privacy risk, and fine-tuned LLM pipelines turn general-purpose models into task-specific classifiers.

By Nirhoshan Sivaroopan, Albert Zomaya, Kanchana Thilakarathna
arXiv AI
Jul 7

Cortex: A Bidirectionally Aligned Embodied Agent Framework for Long-horizon Manipulation

arXiv:2607. 05377v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models show promise toward generalist manipulation policies, they struggle with long-horizon tasks due to their Markovian nature-relying solely on current observations.

By Jiaqi Peng, Xiqian Yu, Delin Feng, Yuqiang Yang, Wenzhe Cai, Jing Xiong, Ganlin Yang, Jinliang Zheng, Jiafei Cao, Xueyuan Wei, Jiangmiao Pang, Yuan Shen, Tai Wang
arXiv AI
Jul 7

TORINO: Token Reduction via Interpretable Concept Overlap in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2607. 04593v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across different tasks, but their computational cost is dominated by the large number of visual tokens fed to the language model.

By Riccardo Renzulli, Gabriele Spadaro, Shruthi Gowda, Alaa Eddine Mazouz, Van-Tam Nguyen
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

OC-Distill: Ontology-aware Contrastive Learning with Cross-Modal Distillation for ICU Risk Prediction

arXiv:2604. 16878v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Early prediction of severe clinical deterioration and remaining length of stay can enable timely intervention and better resource allocation in high-acuity settings such as the ICU.

By Zhongyuan Liang, Junhyung Jo, Hyang-Jung Lee, Sang Kyu Kim, Irene Y. Chen