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 19

Target-Side Paraphrase Augmentation for Sign Language Translation with Large Language Models

arXiv:2605. 31393v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Sign language translation (SLT) remains constrained by the limited availability of paired sign-video/text corpora and by the heavy-tailed vocabularies typical of real-world datasets.

By Pedro Dal Bianco, Jean Paul Nunes Reinhold, Oscar Stanchi, Facundo Quiroga, Franco Ronchetti, Ulisses Brisolara Corr\^ea
arXiv AI
Jun 19

A Comparative Study of Pretrained Transformer Models for Quranic ASR: Speech Representations, Label Formats, and Dataset Composition

arXiv:2606. 19747v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quran Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) aims to convert Quranic recitation into text, enabling applications such as aided memorisation tools and Quranic search engines.

By Nabil Mosharraf Hossain (Greentech Apps Foundation, United Kingdom), Riasat Islam (Greentech Apps Foundation, United Kingdom, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom), Unaizah Obaidellah (University of Malaya, Malaysia)
arXiv AI
Jun 19

Finetuning Vision-Language-Action Models Requires Fewer Layers Than You Think

arXiv:2606. 20246v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models pre-trained on massive video-robot datasets have revolutionized robotic manipulation, yet their multi-billion parameter architectures impose prohibitive computational burdens during downstream fine-tuning and real-time inference.

By Gia-Binh Nguyen, Trong-Bao Ho, Thien-Loc Ha, Khoa Vo, Philip Lund M{\o}ller, Quang T. Nguyen, Long Dinh, Tuan Dam, Vu Duong, Tung M. Luu, Trung Le, Tran Nguyen Le, Minh Vu, An Thai Le, Ngan Le, Daniel Sonntag, James Zou, Jan Peters, Duy M. H. Nguyen, Ngo Anh Vien
arXiv AI
Jun 19

TerraMind: Large-Scale Generative Multimodality for Earth Observation

arXiv:2504. 11171v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present TerraMind, the first any-to-any generative, multimodal foundation model for Earth observation (EO).

By Johannes Jakubik, Felix Yang, Benedikt Blumenstiel, Erik Scheurer, Rocco Sedona, Stefano Maurogiovanni, Jente Bosmans, Nikolaos Dionelis, Valerio Marsocci, Niklas Kopp, Rahul Ramachandran, Paolo Fraccaro, Thomas Brunschwiler, Gabriele Cavallaro, Juan Bernabe-Moreno, Nicolas Long\'ep\'e
arXiv AI
Jun 19

Techniques for Peak Memory Reduction for LoRA Fine-tuning of LLMs on Edge Devices

arXiv:2606. 19528v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fine-tuning of Large Language Models (LLMs) using Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) on an end-user's data offers personalized experiences while keeping data private, but faces severe memory constraints on consumer hardware.

By Hassan Dbouk, Matthias Reisser, Prathamesh Mandke, Likhita Arun Navali, Christos Louizos
arXiv AI
Jun 19

Reinforcement-aware Knowledge Distillation for LLM Reasoning

arXiv:2602. 22495v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) post-training has recently driven major gains in long chain-of-thought reasoning large language models (LLMs), but the high inference cost of such models motivates distillation into smaller students.

By Zhaoyang Zhang, Shuli Jiang, Yantao Shen, Yuting Zhang, Dhananjay Ram, Shuo Yang, Zhuowen Tu, Wei Xia, Stefano Soatto
arXiv AI
Jun 19

FreeStyle: Free Control of Style-Content Dual-Reference Generation from Community LoRA Mining

arXiv:2606. 20506v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Style-content dual-reference generation aims to synthesize an image that preserves the structure and semantics of a content reference while adopting the style of a separate style reference.

By Jinghong Lan, Wei Cheng, Yunuo Chen, Ziqi Ye, Peng Xing, Yixiao Fang, Rui Wang, Yufeng Yang, Xuanyang Zhang, Xianfang Zeng, Difan Zou, Gang Yu, Chi Zhang
arXiv AI
Jun 19

AAPA: Adversarially Anchored Preference Alignment for Post-Training of Large Language Models

arXiv:2509. 25148v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Post-training alignment of large language models often combines supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on expert demonstrations with reinforcement learning (RL) from preference or verifiable feedback.

By Faqiang Qian, Kang An, Weikun Zhang, Ziliang Wang, Xuhui Zheng, Liangjian Wen, Yong Dai, Mengya Gao, Yichao Wu
arXiv AI
Jun 19

MENTOR: Reinforcement Learning via Flexible Teacher-Optimized Rewards for Tool-Use Distillation

arXiv:2510. 18383v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Distilling the tool-use capabilities of large language models (LLMs) into small language models (SLMs) is essential for their practical application.

By ChangSu Choi, Hoyun Song, Dongyeon Kim, WooHyeon Jung, Minkyung Cho, Sunjin Park, NohHyeob Bae, Seona Yu, KyungTae Lim