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 Machine Learning
Aug 4

Syntax Without Semantics: Teaching Large Language Models to Code in an Unseen Language

arXiv:2605. 15607v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) achieve high pass rates on code generation benchmarks, yet whether they can transfer this ability to languages absent from pretraining remains poorly understood.

By Vinayshekhar Bannihatti Kumar, Disha Makhija, Manoj Ghuhan Arivazhagan, Rashmi Gangadharaiah
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

OSMDA: OpenStreetMap-based Domain Adaptation for Remote Sensing VLMs

arXiv:2603. 11804v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) adapted to remote sensing rely heavily on domain-specific image-text supervision, yet high-quality annotations for satellite and aerial imagery remain scarce and expensive to produce.

By Stefan Maria Ailuro (INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"), Mario Markov (INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"), Mohammad Mahdi (INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"), Delyan Boychev (INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"), Luc Van Gool (INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"), Danda Pani Paudel (INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski")
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

EEG-FM-Compass: Progress, Benchmarking, and Future Directions for EEG Foundation Models

arXiv:2601. 17883v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Electroencephalography (EEG) foundation models (FMs) have recently emerged as a promising paradigm for brain-computer interfaces, aiming to learn transferable neural representations from large-scale heterogeneous recordings.

By Dingkun Liu, Yuheng Chen, Zhu Chen, Zhenyao Cui, Yaozhi Wen, Jiayu An, Jingwei Luo, Dongrui Wu
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

Question Begets Question: Self-Evolving Curriculum for Reinforcement Fine-Tuning on Competition Mathematics

arXiv:2608. 01522v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Teaching a language model a skill it has not mastered is obstructed by three recurring difficulties: training data is scarce, ground-truth reasoning traces are usually unavailable, and models often exhibit an apparent ceiling beyond which additional data yields no further improvement.

By Longtian Bao, Jianyou Wang, Yang Zhang, Youze Zheng, Ramamohan Paturi
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

FedChronos: Federated Fine-Tuning of Time-Series Foundation Models for Privacy-Preserving Commodity Price Forecasting

arXiv:2608. 01290v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Time-series foundation models (TSFMs) such as Chronos have demonstrated strong forecasting capabilities across domains, yet adapting them to institutionally fragmented settings, where data cannot be centralized due to regulatory, competitive, or sovereignty constraints, remains unexplored.

By Amit Sharma, Nitin Auluck, Akramul Azim
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

Rethinking Federated Graph Foundation Models: A Graph-Language Alignment-based Approach

arXiv:2601. 21369v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent studies of federated graph foundational models (FedGFMs) break the idealized and untenable assumption of having centralized data storage to train graph foundation models, and accommodate the reality of distributed, privacy-restricted data silos.

By Yinlin Zhu, Di Wu, Xianzhi Zhang, Yuming Ai, Xunkai Li, Miao Hu, Guocong Quan
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

Retrieval of Coastal Biogeochemical Parameters From Near-Surface Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Reflectance Using Physics-Aware Meta-Learning

arXiv:2605. 05623v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Hyperspectral in situ sensing has shown promise in retrieving aquatic biogeochemical (BGC) parameters, such as total suspended solids, dissolved organic carbon, and total chlorophyll-a, for cost-effective monitoring of coastal water quality.

By Yiqing Guo, Nagur R. C. Cherukuru, Eric A. Lehmann, S. L. Kesav Unnithan, Tim J. Malthus, Gemma Kerrisk, Xiubin Qi, Faisal Islam, Tisham Dhar, Mark J. Doubell
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

Transfer Learning of CATE with Kernel Ridge Regression

arXiv:2502. 11331v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The proliferation of data has sparked significant interest in leveraging findings from one study to estimate treatment effects in a different target population without direct outcome observations.

By Seok-Jin Kim, Hongjie Liu, Molei Liu, Kaizheng Wang