Self-play fine-tuning improves diffusion models for text-to-image generation.
problem Plateauing performance of diffusion models after data saturation.
method Self-play fine-tuning (SPIN-Diffusion) using competition among model versions.
result Significantly improved model performance and human preference alignment.
Big models pretrain and fine-tune for semi-supervised learning on ImageNet.
problem Learning from few labeled examples with a large amount of unlabeled data.
method Unsupervised pretraining of a big ResNet model followed by supervised fine-tuning and distillation.
result 73.9% ImageNet top-1 accuracy with just 1% of labels (≤13 labeled images per class). Two methods for model adaptation compared; fine-tuning outperforms Best-of-N in realizable settings.
problem Comparing methods for adapting large language models to new tasks.
method Supervised fine-tuning vs. Best-of-N approach.
result Supervised fine-tuning outperforms Best-of-N in realizable settings.
FisherSFT selects informative examples to fine-tune LLMs efficiently.
problem Adapting large language models to new domains efficiently.
method Selects examples maximizing information gain using Hessian of log-likelihood.
result Empirically demonstrates improved performance with reduced computational cost.
Framework fine-tunes foundation models with semi-supervised learning for downstream tasks and latent spaces.
problem Training foundation models with limited labelled data.
method Mutual information decomposition for downstream and latent spaces, semi-supervised fine-tuning.
result Significant improvements in classification tasks under low-labelled conditions.
New approach uses PDE learning for faster RL fine-tuning.
problem Learning optimal control policy for diffusion process.
method Solves variational inequality based on HJB equations.
result Shows fine-tuning can be done via supervised regression.
Fine-tunes LLMs to correct bias in predictions.
problem LLMs exhibit bias in predictions from data.
method Supervised fine-tuning with Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA).
result Fine-tuning corrects bias in both controlled and real-world settings.
While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) trained for image and video super-resolution (SR) regularly achieve new state-of-the-art performance, they also suffer from significant drawbacks. One of their limitations is their lack of robustness to unseen image formation models during training. Other limitations include t…
Paper fine-tunes LLMs using user edits, unifying preference, supervision, and reward feedback.
problem Adapting LLMs to user preferences and feedback types.
method Derives bounds for learning algorithms from user edits, proposes an ensembling procedure.
result Ensembling procedure outperforms individual feedback methods and robustly adapts to different user-edit distributions.
We present a novel framework to deal with relation extraction tasks in cases where there is complete lack of supervision, either in the form of gold annotations, or relations from a knowledge base. Our approach leverages syntactic parsing and pre-trained word embeddings to extract few but precise relations,which are th…
SPIN converts weak LLMs to strong ones using self-play.
problem Growing strong LLMs without human-annotated data.
method Self-play fine-tuning (SPIN) starting from a supervised fine-tuned model.
result SPIN significantly improves LLM performance across benchmarks.
Fine-tuning large language models requires minimal data, making them efficient.
problem Achieving state-of-the-art performance with large language models.
method Using BERT as an example, fine-tuning only the most critical layers of the pre-trained model.
result Fine-tuned models are close in parameter space to the pre-trained model, with many good solutions found in sparsified versions.
Improved financial VA intent classification accuracy.
problem Determining user intents for unseen open intents.
method Supervised pre-training of intent representations using prefix-tuning and fine-tuning.
result 1.63% - 2.07% higher accuracy on banking77 benchmark.
Paper fine-tunes a simulation-driven estimator to reduce out-of-distribution errors.
problem Out-of-distribution errors in simulation-driven parameter estimators.
method Fine-tuning a Two-Stage estimator to improve accuracy for true parameters outside the sampled range.
result The fine-tuning approach reduces out-of-distribution errors and improves accuracy.
SelMix fine-tunes pre-trained models to optimize non-decomposable objectives.
problem Optimizing non-decomposable performance measures for practical applications.
method Selective mixup fine-tuning of pre-trained models.
result SelMix significantly improves performance for various non-decomposable objectives.
SimCLR pre-training improves CNN performance with fewer labels.
problem Learning with fewer labeled data.
method SimCLR contrastive learning method combined with supervised fine-tuning.
result SimCLR pre-training with supervised fine-tuning achieves almost optimal test loss with fewer labeled data.
This paper simplifies fine-tuning for small LLMs, reducing barriers for developers.
problem Limited resources for fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) by individual developers and small organizations.
method Instruction-tuning datasets, small-sized LLMs (3B to 7B parameters), various training configurations and strategies.
result Improved model performance on benchmarks with specific training configurations, and insights into early termination and hyperparameter simplifications.
L3Ms fine-tune LLMs with constraints for tailored applications.
problem Inadequate alignment of LLMs for diverse applications.
method Formulate SFT and alignment as constrained optimization, using logarithmic barriers.
result Versatile and effective in achieving tailored alignments for various applications.
Open-FinLLMs tackle financial tasks with multimodal capabilities.
problem Financial LLMs lack multimodal capabilities and real-world applicability.
method Developed Open-FinLLMs, an open-source multimodal financial LLM suite.
result Open-FinLLMs outperform advanced financial and general LLMs in diverse tasks.
Curriculum learning improves model training efficiency and performance.
problem Expensive training of reasoning models using human or synthetic data.
method Autocurriculum, where models use their own performance to decide training problems.
result Autocurriculum reduces training costs and improves model performance.
Interactive machine learning with weak supervision and pre-trained embeddings.
problem Training machine learning models with limited labeled data.
method Use pre-trained embeddings to define a distance function and extend source votes to nearby points.
result Significantly outperforms traditional weakly-supervised and fully-supervised methods.
Deep Convolutional features extracted from a comprehensive labeled dataset, contain substantial representations which could be effectively used in a new domain. Despite the fact that generic features achieved good results in many visual tasks, fine-tuning is required for pretrained deep CNN models to be more effective …
GRASP removes spurious correlations in fine-tuned models, improving task performance and reducing bias.
problem Fine-tuned models can latch onto spurious correlations, leading to bias and reduced generalization.
method GRASP identifies and removes spurious correlations from model weights without removing latent factors.
result GRASP significantly reduces bias and improves task performance in various fine-tuning tasks.
New method uses limited labeled data and multiple starts to adapt models across domains.
problem Accurate predictions in target domain with few labeled data.
method Fine-tuning from multiple adaptive starts, extending UDA methods.
result Minimax-optimal target performance with limited labeled target data.
Paper presents a method for efficient robot adaptation using fine-tuning.
problem Continuous adaptation of robot learning systems in real-world scenarios.
method Fine-tuning previously learned policies using off-policy reinforcement learning.
result Fine-tuning leads to substantial performance gains and adaptation to new conditions.
New framework improves LLM performance by avoiding forgetting during sequential training stages.
problem Forgetting during sequential training stages of LLMs.
method Proposes a joint post-training framework with theoretical convergence guarantees.
result Empirically outperforms sequential post-training framework by up to 23%.
Generative Adapter adapts LMs with a single forward pass, reducing inference overhead.
problem Efficient adaptation of large language models for new contexts.
method Generative Adapter directly maps new contexts to low-rank LM adapters via self-supervised learning.
result Significant reduction in inference overhead with no need for fine-tuning.
Transformers learn sparse Boolean functions through RL and SFT, revealing distinct learning behaviors.
problem Learning sparse Boolean functions with Transformers.
method Reinforcement Learning (RL) with process rewards and Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT).
result RL learns the whole CoT chain simultaneously, while SFT learns step by step.
New approach uses inverse reinforcement learning to improve language model training.
problem Training large language models using imitation learning methods.
method Developed a new method of inverse reinforcement learning to optimize sequences directly.
result IRL-based fine-tuning leads to better performance and diversity in language generation.
Fine-tuning LLMs with observational data can lead to spurious correlations, but DeconfoundLM can mitigate this.
problem Aligning LLMs with human preferences and business objectives using observational data.
method DeconfoundLM, a method that removes confounders from reward signals.
result DeconfoundLM improves recovery of causal relationships and mitigates spurious correlations.
Deep neural networks require a large amount of labeled training data during supervised learning. However, collecting and labeling so much data might be infeasible in many cases. In this paper, we introduce a source-target selective joint fine-tuning scheme for improving the performance of deep learning tasks with insuf…
Recent state-of-the-art language models utilize a two-phase training procedure comprised of (i) unsupervised pre-training on unlabeled text, and (ii) fine-tuning for a specific supervised task. More recently, many studies have been focused on trying to improve these models by enhancing the pre-training phase, either vi…
This paper tackles few-shot classification by improving GAN-based data augmentation.
problem Improving few-shot classification performance using GANs with limited data.
method Fine-tuning GANs for few-shot classification, addressing training and evaluation challenges.
result Semi-supervised fine-tuning is a more effective approach for few-shot classification with limited data.
We propose a new image denoising algorithm, dubbed as Fully Convolutional Adaptive Image DEnoiser (FC-AIDE), that can learn from an offline supervised training set with a fully convolutional neural network as well as adaptively fine-tune the supervised model for each given noisy image. We significantly extend the frame…
In this study, we propose the integration of competitive learning into convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to improve the representation learning and efficiency of fine-tuning. Conventional CNNs use back propagation learning, and it enables powerful representation learning by a discrimination task. However, it require…
New framework analyzes LLM personalization trade-offs under congestion.
problem Tension between personalization and resource sharing in LLMs.
method Developed a statistical-economic framework to model user incentives.
result Congestion can flip rankings of SFT and ICL, and offers both methods never hurt profits.
This paper improves anomaly detection in lane rendering images for safer navigation.
problem Anomalies in lane rendering images can mislead drivers, posing safety risks.
method Proposes a four-phase pipeline using Transformer models, self-supervised pre-training, and fine-tuning.
result The pipeline enhances detection accuracy and reduces training time.
New measure FTC quantifies how much a ReLU network can fine-tune.
problem Analyzing memorization capacity in fine-tuned neural networks.
method Defined Fine-Tuning Capacity (FTC) for additive fine-tuning of ReLU networks.
result Upper and lower bounds on FTC for 2 and 3-layer ReLU networks.
Behavior Transfer improves reinforcement learning by leveraging pre-trained policies.
problem Efficient transfer of knowledge in reinforcement learning.
method Behavior Transfer (BT) that uses pre-trained policies for exploration.
result BT combined with pre-training leads to better solutions than without pre-training.
This paper re-evaluates hyperparameters for fine-tuning pre-trained models.
problem Current hyperparameter settings for fine-tuning are often ad-hoc and fixed.
method Empirical evaluation of learning rate, batch size, and momentum for fine-tuning.
result Optimal hyperparameters are not only dataset-dependent but also sensitive to domain similarity.
LoRA fine-tuning explained with gradient dynamics for low-rank perturbations.
problem Understanding why gradient descent converges to useful low-rank perturbations in LoRA fine-tuning.
method Generalized student-teacher setting with i.i.d. samples and online gradient descent.
result Gradient descent converges to the teacher model in dkO(1) iterations under certain conditions. In this paper we describe our attempt at producing a state-of-the-art Twitter sentiment classifier using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Long Short Term Memory (LSTMs) networks. Our system leverages a large amount of unlabeled data to pre-train word embeddings. We then use a subset of the unlabeled data to fin…
New method quantifies uncertainty in fine-tuned LLMs using LoRA ensembles.
problem Uncertainty in fine-tuned LLMs and how to trust their predictions.
method Posterior approximations using low-rank adaptation ensembles.
result Unexpected retention of acquired knowledge during fine-tuning in overfitting regime.
While state-of-the-art NLP explainability (XAI) methods focus on explaining per-sample decisions in supervised end or probing tasks, this is insufficient to explain and quantify model knowledge transfer during (un-)supervised training. Thus, for TX-Ray, we modify the established computer vision explainability principle…
BERT fine-tuning is unstable due to optimization issues, not forgetting or dataset size.
problem Stability of fine-tuning BERT-based models across different random seeds.
method Analysis of BERT, RoBERTa, and ALBERT fine-tuned on GLUE datasets, identifying optimization difficulties as the cause of instability.
result Fine-tuning instability is due to optimization difficulties leading to vanishing gradients, not forgetting or dataset size.
New mechanism protects neural network weights from privacy attacks during self-supervised learning.
problem Privacy risks during fine-tuning stage of self-supervised learning.
method Proposes a novel differential privacy mechanism using additive logistic noise.
result Reduces membership inference attack accuracy to 50% while maintaining below 5% performance loss.
New method reduces fine-tuning cost for reused models.
problem Repeating fine-tuning costs with outdated foundation models.
method Portable Reward Tuning (PRT) trains a reward model to maximize the same loss function as fine-tuning.
result PRT achieves comparable accuracy to inference-time tuning with less inference cost.
Study shows how a strong model can learn a task's feature while retaining other capabilities.
problem How to align superhuman AI systems using weak-to-strong generalization.
method Two-layer neural networks, reward-model learning, multi-step SGD, feature learning.
result The strong model efficiently learns task features while retaining general capabilities.