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48 results for Instructional Alignment

InvestLM is a financial domain LLM tuned on LLaMA-65B for investment advice.

problem Improving financial text understanding and advice generation for investment.
method Curated financial instruction dataset, LLaMA-65B, less-is-more-for-alignment approach.
result InvestLM provides comparable responses to state-of-the-art commercial models.

Study reveals LLM personality patterns but lacks behavioral consistency.

problem Understanding and validating personality traits in LLMs.
method Characterized LLM personality across three dimensions: training dynamics, self-report validity, and intervention effects.
result Self-reported traits do not reliably predict behavior, and instructional alignment affects trait expression but not behavior.

Study compares DSPy teleprompter algorithms for aligning LLM evaluations with human annotations.

problem Aligning LLM evaluation metrics with human annotations.
method Comparative analysis of five teleprompter algorithms within the DSPy framework.
result Certain teleprompters outperform others in detecting hallucinations.

SAGE enhances reinforcement learning by injecting hints to prevent model stagnation.

problem Sparse rewards cause large language models to stall under relative policy optimization.
method SAGE injects privileged hints during training to increase within-group outcome diversity.
result SAGE consistently outperforms GRPO on 6 benchmarks with LLMs, achieving significant improvements.

SPPO optimizes language model alignment by treating preferences as a game and achieving state-of-the-art performance.

problem Capturing intransitivity and irrationality in human preferences for accurate language model alignment.
method Self-play-based approach to identify Nash equilibrium policy through iterative policy updates.
result SPPO achieves state-of-the-art win-rate of 28.53% on AlpacaEval 2.0 without external supervision.

Method constructs finance LLMs without instruction data using pretraining and model merging.

problem Developing domain-specific LLMs for finance is resource-intensive.
method Continual pretraining on financial data + model merging of instruction-tuned and domain-specific pretrained vectors.
result Successfully constructs instruction-tuned LLMs for finance without additional instruction data.

Recent efforts on training visual navigation agents conditioned on language using deep reinforcement learning have been successful in learning policies for different multimodal tasks, such as semantic goal navigation and embodied question answering. In this paper, we propose a multitask model capable of jointly learnin…

2019-02-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Learning in environments with large state and action spaces, and sparse rewards, can hinder a Reinforcement Learning (RL) agent's learning through trial-and-error. For instance, following natural language instructions on the Web (such as booking a flight ticket) leads to RL settings where input vocabulary and number of…

2018-12-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Interactive learning with hindsight instruction feedback achieves better performance than traditional methods.

problem Learning with expert supervision of optimal responses is often impractical or requires expert knowledge.
method Study of interactive learning with hindsight instruction feedback, introducing LORIL algorithm.
result LORIL algorithm achieves T\sqrt{T} regret, improving over baselines in domains with low-rank instruction-response distribution.

A method to improve LLMs by automating the construction of a mixture of expert prompts.

problem Limitation of single instruction prompts in covering complex problem spaces.
method Divide the problem space into sub-regions, each governed by a specialized expert with both an instruction and demos. A two-phase process constructs these experts.
result Achieves an average win rate of 81% across major benchmarks.

Improved financial sentiment analysis using simple instruction tuning of LLMs.

problem Lack of accurate financial sentiment analysis by large language models.
method Instruction tuning of general-purpose LLMs with a small portion of financial sentiment data.
result Significant improvement in financial sentiment analysis, especially in complex scenarios.

Improves matrix multiplication throughput for asymmetric bit-width operands.

problem Matrix multiplications between asymmetric bit-width operands, especially 8- and 4-bit, are not efficiently handled by existing SIMD instructions.
method Proposes a new SIMD matrix multiplication instruction that uses mixed precision on inputs (8- and 4-bit) and accumulates into 16-bit output, improving throughput.
result Offers 2x improvement in throughput compared to existing symmetric-operand-size instructions, with negligible overflow.

Framework improves clinical timeline reconstruction from text and tables.

problem Temporal precision and event timing in clinical narratives and EHRs.
method Retrieval-augmented multimodal alignment framework.
result Consistently improves absolute timestamp accuracy and temporal concordance.

Improved investment performance with fine-grained LLM tasks.

problem Abstract financial trading systems often overlook real-world workflow intricacies, leading to degraded performance.
method Proposes a multi-agent LLM trading framework that decomposes investment analysis into fine-grained tasks.
result Fine-grained task decomposition significantly improves risk-adjusted returns compared to coarse-grained designs.

Paper fine-tunes LLaMA-3-8B for financial NER using instruction and LoRA.

problem LLMs struggle with financial NER, especially differentiating entities and amounts.
method Instruction fine-tuning combined with LoRA for parameter-efficient learning.
result Micro-F1 score of 0.894 on financial NER tasks, outperforming other models.

RAG-IT automates financial analysis using LLMs and specialized datasets.

problem Manual financial analysis is time-consuming and requires expertise.
method Retrieval-Augmented Instruction Tuning (RAG-IT) fine-tunes an LLM for financial tasks.
result RAG-IT improves financial report generation performance compared to commercial systems.

Study finds flipped classrooms improve student self-concept, enjoyment, but not exam scores.

problem Evaluating the impact of flipped classrooms on higher education outcomes.
method Double/debiased machine learning (DML) approach to analyze student data.
result No significant positive effects on exam scores, passing rates, or knowledge retention.

Study shows model size inversely affects few-shot instruction accuracy.

problem Understanding how model size impacts few-shot instruction prompting accuracy.
method Introduced DeltaWords dataset to evaluate model's ability to follow instructions.
result Model size inversely affects few-shot instruction accuracy, with larger models performing worse.

Enhances LLMs for predicting stock movements by considering news dissemination and context.

problem Lack of consideration for news dissemination and insufficient contextual data in LLMs for stock price prediction.
method Clusters news for reach assessment, enriches prompts with specific data and instructions, fine-tunes an LLM using the dataset.
result Improves prediction accuracy by 8% compared to existing methods.

New method for RLHF reduces costs by integrating new data in one pass.

problem Continuous integration and re-optimization of models in RLHF leads to high computational and storage costs.
method Proposes a one-pass reward modeling method using online mirror descent with a tailored local norm.
result Achieves constant-time updates per iteration, enhancing both statistical and computational efficiency.

Improved robot navigation using multi-head attention for natural language instructions.

problem Improving robot navigation in unfamiliar environments.
method Proposes a multi-head attention mechanism blending layer in a neural network model.
result Significant performance gains in translating instructions for unseen environments.

Emergent misalignment is influenced by training dynamics, model priors, and data.

problem Emergent misalignment in models
method Exploring training dynamics, model priors, and data
result Activation deltas before and after narrow fine-tuning correlate with their similarities when measured with the last prompt-token activations.

This paper benchmarks FinGPT for financial datasets using open-source large language models.

problem Challenges in integrating GPT-based models with financial datasets.
method Instruction Tuning paradigm for open-source large language models adapted for financial contexts.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness and adaptability of FinGPT in financial tasks.

LLMs struggle with zero-shot annotation tasks due to model-internalized priors.

problem Impact of model-internalized priors on LLM performance in zero-shot annotation tasks.
method Investigated three dimensions: familiarity, decision stickiness, and susceptibility to misaligned task definitions.
result Nearly two-thirds of zero-shot errors are resistant to correction, with a rescue rate of 34.8%. Definition-Specific Familiarity (DSF) shows a positive association with model performance.

This paper proposes a new method to connect language and physical actions in reinforcement learning.

problem Connecting linguistic representations to the physical world in embodied agents.
method Language-conditioned goal generators to decouple sensorimotor learning from language acquisition.
result Agents can demonstrate a diversity of behaviors for any given instruction.

LLM Pro Finance Suite enhances financial NLP with instruction-tuned models.

problem Limited NLP capabilities for financial tasks in generalist models.
method Instruction-tuned large language models fine-tuned on financial data.
result Consistent improvement over state-of-the-art baselines in finance tasks.

SymNoise improves language model fine-tuning by 6.7% over NEFTune, using symmetric noise.

problem Improving performance of language models through noise-based fine-tuning.
method Introducing SymNoise, a new fine-tuning method using symmetric noise in embeddings.
result SymNoise increases model performance by 69.04% on AlpacaEval compared to NEFTune's 64.69%.

An increasing number of datasets contain multiple views, such as video, sound and automatic captions. A basic challenge in representation learning is how to leverage multiple views to learn better representations. This is further complicated by the existence of a latent alignment between views, such as between speech a…

2018-11-21abs ↗pdf ↗

FinRLlama wins FinRL Challenge 2024 by fine-tuning LLMs with market data.

problem Lack of contextual alignment for financial market applications in traditional LLMs.
method Fine-tuning LLaMA-3.2-3B-Instruct model with custom RLMF prompt design integrating historical data and reward feedback.
result RLMF-tuned FinRLlama framework outperforms baseline methods in signal consistency and trading outcomes.

Human communication takes many forms, including speech, text and instructional videos. It typically has an underlying structure, with a starting point, ending, and certain objective steps between them. In this paper, we consider instructional videos where there are tens of millions of them on the Internet. We propose a…

2016-05-11abs ↗pdf ↗

SRPO improves AI alignment with human preferences through self-improvement and task-independent optimization.

problem AI models trained with RLHF lack self-correction mechanisms and struggle with task generalization.
method SRPO formulates the preference learning problem as a min-max objective, optimizing a self-improvement policy and a generative policy in an adversarial fashion, making the solution task-independent.
result SRPO outperforms existing methods, achieving 90% AI Win-Rate on XSum and 56% on Arena-Hard prompts after a single revision.

Neuro-symbolic agent learns systematic generalisation from formal instructions.

problem Achieving zero-shot generalisation of formally specified tasks.
method Combines deep reinforcement learning with temporal logic.
result Systematic learning emerges with convolutional layers and abstract operators.

Simple adaptive attacks can jailbreak state-of-the-art safety-aligned language models.

problem Vulnerability of safety-aligned language models to simple adaptive attacks.
method Designing adversarial prompt templates, random search on suffixes, and transfer/prefilling attacks.
result 100% attack success rate on various models including GPT-4, Vicuna, Mistral, and Claude.

WebGUM learns web navigation from multimodal data, outperforming previous methods.

problem Limited generalization from domain-specific models in web navigation.
method Instruction-following multimodal agent trained on vision-language foundation models.
result Significant improvement in web navigation performance on benchmarks.

Training-free looped transformers improve model performance without additional training.

problem Improving model performance without additional training or fine-tuning.
method A lightweight inference-time wrapper loops a contiguous mid-stack block of layers of a frozen checkpoint without additional fine-tuning.
result Our method improves model performance across various model families.

Training models to prefer certain responses can unintentionally shift probability to harmful ones.

problem Likelihood displacement in DPO models, leading to unintended unalignment.
method Characterized and mitigated likelihood displacement using CHES score.
result Training models to prefer certain responses can unintentionally shift probability mass to harmful responses.

Efficient FPGA virtualization for deep learning reduces user isolation and overhead.

problem Poor isolation and heavy re-compilation overhead in FPGA-based DNN accelerators.
method Two-level instruction dispatch module, multi-core hardware resources pool, tiling-based instruction frame package, two-stage static-dynamic compilation.
result 1.07-1.69x and 1.88-3.12x throughput improvement over previous designs.

In2Core selects a coreset for efficient LLM fine-tuning with reduced data.

problem Costly fine-tuning of large language models due to extensive parameters and data requirements.
method Analyzes model gradients to estimate training sample influence, optimizing for efficiency.
result Achieves similar performance with 50% of training data using In2Core.

Qwen3-8B outperforms classical models in financial text classification.

problem Financial text classification for trading systems and sentiment analysis.
method Noisy Embedding Instruction Finetuning and Rank-stabilized Low-Rank Adaptation.
result Qwen3-8B achieves better classification accuracy and fewer training epochs.