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
Jul 24

A Diffusion-Model Subpopulation Digital Twin for Mobile Health Deployment: A Case Study on the HeartSteps Intervention

arXiv:2607. 21403v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mobile-health interventions increasingly use online learning and decision making algorithms to personalize when to nudge users toward healthier behavior, but a poorly designed algorithm can burden and disengage participants.

By Ziping Xu, Yuyi Chang, Chenshun Ni, Nithin Sugavanam, Asim H. Gazi, Pedja Klasnja, Emre Ertin, Susan A. Murphy
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 24

DataPrep-Bench: Benchmarking LLMs as Training Data Preparators

arXiv:2607. 20465v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The quality of training data fundamentally determines the capabilities of large language models (LLMs), yet no unified benchmark exists to measure how well LLMs, agents, and data-centric workflows actually prepare training data end to end.

By Hao Liang, Qifeng Cai, Yibo Lin, Jianzhuo Du, Qifeng Xia, Sizhe Qiu, Linzhuang Sun, Meiyi Qiang, Zhaoyang Han, Xiaochen Ma, Bohan Zeng, Ruichuan An, Conghui He, Wentao Zhang
arXiv AI
Jul 24

Routing Without Training: Controllable-Ratio LLM Offloading via Reliability Gating

arXiv:2607. 20481v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Local-cloud collaboration is a practical way to deploy large language models under resource constraints, but existing methods often rely on trained routers or collaboration-aware finetuning that tie routing behavior to a particular operating regime.

By Evan Chen, Shiqiang Wang, Kevin S Chan, Su Wang, Christopher Brinton
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 24

Safety-oriented sidewalk and road segmentation for smartphone-based assistive navigation

arXiv:2607. 21137v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Independent sidewalk mobility is essential for blind and visually impaired pedestrians (BVIPs), yet smartphone-based assistive navigation requires perception models that distinguish walkable sidewalks from adjacent unsafe regions.

By Hakan Calim, Anamaria Dumitrescu, Adarsh Bhandary Panambur, Huzaifa Asif, Andreas Maier
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 24

RadioTrace: Transmitter-Aware Diffusion for Radio Map Estimation without Deployment-Time Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2607. 20909v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Radio map (RM) estimation aims to reconstruct the spatial distribution of wireless signal characteristics, such as received signal strength (RSS), from sparse measurements, a task that is critical for spectrum management, interference mitigation, and localization in modern wireless networks.

By Liu Yang, Qiang Li, Zhuo Cao, Weijie Xiong, Guomin Sun, Jingran Lin
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 24

Machine Learning for Charge State Characterization of Isolated Double Quantum Dots

arXiv:2607. 20871v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scaling semiconductor quantum dot arrays toward fault-tolerant quantum computing requires efficient tuneup of spin qubits, a process that depends on the analysis of charge stability maps (CSMs) and remains largely manual.

By Hyma Vallabhapurapu, Marco Candido, Krishna Choudhary, Paul Steinacker, Ensar Vahapoglu, Chris Escott, Wee Han Lim, Andre Saraiva, Nard Dumoulin Stuyck, MengKe Feng
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 24

Domyn-Small: A European 10B Reasoning Language Model

arXiv:2607. 20448v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce Domyn-Small, a 10-billion-parameter open-weight reasoning language model released under the MIT license.

By Simone Angarano, Francesco Bertolotti, Federico D'Ambrosio, Michele Resta, Alessandro Rognoni, Nicol\`o Ruggeri, Dario Salvati, Andrea Valenti, Alberto Veneri, Martin Cimmino
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 24

Naver-News-KO: A Korean News Summarization Dataset for Open-Source Fine-Tuning of Summarization Models

arXiv:2607. 20442v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We release Naver-News-KO, a Korean news summarization dataset of 27,400 (document, summary) pairs collected from Naver News over a ten-day window in July 2022 across two categories (Economy and IT/Science; 77/23 split), with train/validation/test partitions of 22,194 / 2,466 / 2,740 and a mean per-record document-to-summary character-compression ratio of 6.

By Daekeun Kim
arXiv AI
Jul 24

EvoSpec: Evolving Speculative Decoding via Real-Time Vocabulary and Parameter Adaptation

arXiv:2605. 27390v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Speculative decoding accelerates Large Language Model inference through draft-then-verify generation, yet lightweight draft models face coupled efficiency and quality limitations: large-vocabulary output projection is costly, while limited draft capacity and static parameters reduce acceptance under specialized or shifting inputs.

By Shuyu Zhang, Lingfeng Pan, Qicheng Wang, Yaqi Shi, Yueyang Tan, Ruyu Yan, Jiaqi Chen, Lixing Du, Lu Wang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 24

From Evaluation to Optimisation: Hierarchy-Aware Training Signals for CWE Prediction in Python

arXiv:2607. 21069v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The original ALPHA benchmark introduced a taxonomy-aware penalty for evaluating CWE-level vulnerability prediction in Python and proposed that the penalty could theoretically also serve as a training signal.

By Muntasir Adnan, Manile Srun, Carlos C. N. Kuhn