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
Jun 30

Bilevel Optimization for Neural Architecture Search

arXiv:2606. 29582v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Bilevel optimization has become an influential and widely adopted framework for addressing hierarchical optimization problems in machine learning, providing an effective approach to modeling the interaction between two levels of optimization, with applications such as hyperparameter tuning, meta-learning, adversarial training, and data poisoning.

By Abhishek Shukla, Ankur Sinha, Faiz Hamid
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30

Beyond the Mean: Three-Axis Fidelity for Aligning LLM-Based Survey Simulators from Small Pilot Data

arXiv:2606. 28963v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to simulate social survey responses, yet their outputs exhibit systematic biases: marginal distributions are skewed, response variance is poorly calibrated, and predictor-outcome relationships are attenuated.

By Eun Cheol Choi, Youngrae Kim, Prabhu Pugalenthi, Hong-En Chen, Bo-Ruei Huang
arXiv AI
Jun 30

An AI agent for treatment reasoning over a biomedical tool universe

arXiv:2606. 28692v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Treatment reasoning underpins every therapeutic decision, integrating disease context, comorbidities, medications, contraindications, and evolving biomedical knowledge to select an appropriate therapy.

By Shanghua Gao, Ayush Noori, Richard Zhu, Curtis Ginder, Zhenglun Kong, Xiaorui Su, Justin Kauffman, Benjamin S. Glicksberg, Joshua Lampert, Ankit Sakhuja, Ashwin Sawant, ATHENA-R1 Evaluation Consortium, David A. Clifton, Noa Dagan, Ran Balicer, Marinka Zitnik
arXiv AI
Jun 30

DuoMem: Towards Capable On-Device Memory Agents via Dual-Space Distillation

arXiv:2606. 29961v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents can solve complex procedural tasks by interacting with environments over multiple turns, but this ability typically depends on large models, long contexts, and repeated inference calls.

By Peyman Hosseini, Ondrej Bohdal, Ahmed Alajrami, Andrea Maracani, Ignacio Castro, Matthew Purver, Mete Ozay, Savas Ozkan, Taha Ceritli
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30

BaRA: Bayesian Adaptive Rank Allocation for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2606. 29184v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) enables highly efficient fine-tuning by constraining task-specific updates to fixed low-rank subspaces, this rigid design limits representational flexibility and often results in overconfident predictions and miscalibrated uncertainty, especially in low-data regimes.

By Zhibin Duan, Yuhong Wang, Jiahong Fu, Zongsheng Yue, Bo Chen, Zongben Xu
arXiv AI
Jun 30

ARMOR: Adaptive Retriever Optimization for Low-Resource Telecom Question Answering

arXiv:2606. 29706v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Telecom question answering (QA) is a challenging setting for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG): evidence is fragmented across standards, papers, encyclopedic resources, and web documents, and answers often hinge on technical tables, equations, and specialized protocol language.

By Heshan Fernando, Quan Xiao, Yan Xin, Tianyi Chen
arXiv AI
Jun 30

LeVo 2: Stable and Melodious Song Generation via Hierarchical Representation Modeling and Progressive Post-Training

arXiv:2606. 30642v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Full-length song generation must preserve coherence and musicality, render detailed vocal and accompaniment acoustics, and follow lyrics and prompts.

By Shun Lei, Huaicheng Zhang, Dapeng Wu, Yaoxun Xu, Lishi Zuo, Wei Tan, Hangting Chen, Guangzheng Li, Jianwei Yu, Zhiyong Wu, Dong Yu