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  1. CERA-MoA: Co-Evolving Routing Mechanisms with Continually Learning LLM Agents

    Sep 16, 2026Jiaxuan Jiang, Liyuan He, Zhixuan FangMulti-Agent Reinforcement LearningAdaptive Routing

  2. The Unbearable Weight: Scaling Models and Methods for UAV Audio Classification

    Sep 15, 2026Andrew P. Berg, Qian Zhang, Mia Y. WangUnmanned Aerial VehiclesReal-Time Inference

  3. CLARE: Scalable Class-Incremental Continual Learning via a Sparsity-Based Framework

    Sep 15, 2026Yunxiang Fu, Meng Lou, Zicheng Liao +1Efficient Continual LearningDomain Incremental Learning

  4. TAME: Token Attribution and Masking for Emergent misalignment

    Sep 15, 2026Md Rayhanul Masud, Md Rizwan ParvezMisalignmentLarge Language Model Alignment

  5. Pre-PEFT Probing: Weight Statistics and Perturbation Robustness for Layer Selection in VLM Vision Encoders

    Sep 14, 2026Qingtao Xia, Jiahua Bao, Siyao Cheng +1Parameter-Efficient Fine-TuningFinetuning

  6. Pick Your Poison: Learning to Select Poison Sets for Stronger LLM Backdoor Attacks

    Sep 14, 2026Aashiq Muhamed, Mona T. Diab, Virginia Smith +2PoisoningBackdoor Attacks

  7. Clustering-Based Balanced Sampling and Allocation with Data Parallelism for High-Performance Fine-Tuning

    Sep 14, 2026Hyunjin Kim, Youngeun Nam, Jaemin Han +2Multimodal Instruction TuningFinetuning

  8. When Safety Routing Breaks: Understanding Alignment Fragility under Benign Fine-Tuning

    Sep 1, 2026Yitong Guo, Xiaoyi Chen, Siyuan Zhang +2FragilityFinetuning

  9. Online Self-Weighted Fine-Tuning

    Sep 1, 2026Haiquan Wen, Yiwei He, Bei Peng +1FinetuningAutoregressive Rollout

  10. LoRA-GA^2: Low Rank Adaptation with Multi-step Gradient Adaptive Alignment

    Aug 20, 2026Haonan He, Xinyue FanLow-Rank AdaptationGradient-Free Rank Allocator

  11. Locally Deployable Small Language Models for Emergency Department Decision Support: A Systematic Benchmark of Fine-Tuning Strategies

    Aug 10, 2026Qingfeng Zhang, Yuanxiong Guo, Yanmin GongSmall Language ModelsFinetuning

  12. Can We Optimize the Performance-Carbon Emission Break-Even Point?: The Quest for Greener LLMs

    Aug 9, 2026Sourav Das, Tanmay Joshi, Kripabandhu GhoshCarbon EmissionsLLM Inference Efficiency

  13. Kastor: An efficient fine-tuning strategy for generative emulation of PDE simulations

    Aug 6, 2026Guillaume Couairon, Alexis Jacq, Yu-Han Wu +4EmulatorsAccurate Surrogate Models

  14. Operating Multi-Node Full Fine-Tuning on NVIDIA B300: A Field Report on Telemetry-Based Triage, Negative Results, and Operational Hardening

    Aug 6, 2026Seon Ho Kim, Ui Jeong Jeon, Su Hyeon Kim +1Nvidia NemotronAccelerator

  15. Energy- and Memory-Efficient PEFT Methods for Personalized On-Device SLMs on Consumer GPUs

    Aug 5, 2026Kuanysh Akhmetzhanov, Jurn-Gyu ParkParameter-Efficient Fine-TuningFinetuning

  16. Efficient Multilingual Neural Machine Translation via Corpus-Driven Vocabulary Pruning: An English-Arabic Case Study

    Aug 4, 2026Ahmed Amine Aliane, Nasredine Semmar, Hassina AlianeMultilingual Language ModelsNeural Machine Translation Models

  17. Efficient LLM Adversarial Training via Low-Rank Defense and Circuit-Guided Surrogates

    Jul 31, 2026Weiyi He, Yuping Lin, Jiliang Tang +1Language Model Evasion AttacksAdversarial Transferability

  18. DeltaServe: Host-Agnostic Co-Serving of Inference and Fine-Tuning for LLMs

    Jul 30, 2026Jiaxuan Chen, Jianshu She, Ye Yuan +5Large Language Model ServingInference Latency

  19. Do You Really Need to Pretrain Q-Functions for Online RL Fine-Tuning?

    Jul 29, 2026Perry Dong, Ron Polonsky, Dorsa Sadigh +1Reinforcement Fine-TuningFinetuning

  20. Constitutional Midtraining: Content Presence Drives Alignment Gains

    Jul 29, 2026Desiree Cho, Cameron Tice, Bernie Hogan +4TrainabilityFinetuning

  21. Misalignment Has a Personality: A Big Five Account of Emergent Misalignment

    Jul 29, 2026Hasibur Rahman, Smit DesaiMisalignmentPersonality

  22. Between Gradient and Natural Gradient: A Continuum of LoRA Initializations

    Jul 28, 2026Dianze Liu, Farshid GhezelbashLow-Rank AdaptationFinetuning

  23. Predict before you train: Scaling Laws for particle physics foundation models

    Jul 25, 2026Jan-Lucas Uslu, Benjamin Nachman, Christopher ReScaling LawsFinetuning

  24. Universal BCI Personalization: One API for Frozen EEG Trunks and Foundation Models

    Jul 24, 2026Sergey MusienkoBrain-Computer InterfaceFinetuning

  25. IFCLoRA: Topology-Aware Rank Allocation for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning

    Jul 24, 2026Wei Zhang, Xinwu Liu, Yihang ChengGradient-Free Rank AllocatorLow-Rank Adaptation

  26. Benchmarking Fine-tuning and Retrieval Strategies for a Multimodal Language Model on the NRC Reactor Operator Licensing Examination

    Jul 24, 2026Isak Hwang, Yoon Pyo LeeNuclear FusionMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  27. Zero-Shot Mission-Level Evaluation for Aerial MLLM Agents

    Jul 24, 2026Suman Navaratnarajah, Taehyoung Kim, Jona Ruthardt +5Embodied AgentsAgentic Benchmarks

  28. Nipping the Butterfly Effect in the Bud: Self-Output Fine-Tuning for Autoregressive Weather Prediction

    Jul 23, 2026Yun-Ye Cai, Hsuan-Tien LinArtificial Intelligence Weather ModelsLong-Horizon Forecasting

  29. Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections for Parameter-Efficient Finetuning

    Jul 20, 2026Valentijn Oldenburg, Floris de Kam, Bente Zuijdam +4Parameter-Efficient Fine-TuningTransformer Residual Streams

  30. Opto-ViT-v2: Noise-Resilient On-Chip Fine-Tuning for Photonic Near-Sensor Vision Transformer Accelerators

    Jul 20, 2026Xuming Chen, Deniz Najafi, Mehrdad Morsali +5Self-Supervised Vision TransformersVision Transformer

  31. Robust Assamese Speech Recognition through Controlled Fine-Tuning of Whisper Models

    Jul 19, 2026Ganapati Das, Dwipen Laskar, Hasin Afzal Ahmed +4Automatic Speech Recognition SystemsSpeech Large Language Models

  32. TopoTuner: Topological Finetuning of Large Language Models

    Jul 18, 2026Abdulkadir Erol, Yash Mahajan, Vepaul Hariprashad +4FinetuningTuning

  33. Innocuous-Seeming Data, Latent Ideology: Ideological Generalisation in Finetuned LLMs

    Jul 16, 2026Robert Graham, Edward Stevinson, Yariv BarsheshatLarge Language Model Fine-TuningIdeology

  34. Supervised Fine-Tuning vs. In-Context Learning: An Equilibrium Analysis of LLM Personalization under Congestion

    Jul 15, 2026Fengzhuo Zhang, Zhuoran Yang, Dirk BergemannPersonalizationFinetuning

  35. Efficient Text-to-Audio Generation via Pruning

    Jul 14, 2026Arshdeep Singh, Yi Yuan, Yun Chen +2PruningFinetuning

  36. Cost-Effective Agent Harnesses for Abstract Reasoning and Generalization on ARC-AGI-1

    Jul 7, 2026Kabir Moghe, Peter ChinAgentic ReasoningTest Time

  37. Evaluating Fine-Tuning and Metrics for Neural Decompilation of Dart AOT Binaries

    Jul 7, 2026Raafat Abualazm, Ayman AboElhassan, Amr G. WassalDisassemblyFinetuning

  38. LP-SFT: Local-Preserving Supervised Fine-Tuning via Multimodal Entropy Structure

    Jul 6, 2026Yueyang Wang, Baolong Bi, Shuo Lu +1Supervised Fine-TuningFinetuning

  39. DREAMSTEER: Latent World Models Can Steer VLA Policies During Deployment Without Any Finetuning

    Jul 3, 2026Hanchen Cui, Sergio Arnaud, Arjun Majumdar +5Pretrained Vision-Language-ActionLatent World Models

  40. Provable Pruning for Efficient 3D Gaussian Splatting via Coresets

    Jul 2, 2026Waseem Mousa, Alaa Maalouf3D Gaussian Splats3D Gaussian Splatting

  41. EPnG: Adaptive Expert Prune-and-Grow for Parameter-Efficient MoE Fine-tuning

    Jul 2, 2026Ahin Lee, Sehyun Yun, Taesik GongParameter-Efficient Fine-TuningMixture-of-Experts Models

  42. CORA: Per-Slice Coherent Orthogonal Rotation for SVD-based Low-Rank Adaptation

    Jun 30, 2026Pengcheng Wang, Ziran Liu, Wei Wang +1Parameter-Efficient Fine-TuningSingular Value Decomposition

  43. Mixture-of-Control: State-Aware Fine-Tuning for Transformer-based Models

    Jun 30, 2026Duc Anh Nguyen, Tien Ngoc Luu, Tung Pham +1Parameter-Efficient Fine-TuningFinetuning

  44. Field Order Should Not Matter: Permutation-Invariant Embedding Model Fine-Tuning for Structured Metadata Retrieval

    Jun 29, 2026Aivin V. Solatorio, Olivier Dupriez, Rafael MacalabaMetadataDomain-Invariant Text Embeddings

  45. DNA Language Models: An Assessment of Pre-Training for Fine-Tuning Tasks

    Jun 29, 2026Romain Karpinsky, Julien Mozziconacci, Mickaël DelceyGenerative Pretrained TransformersGenomics

  46. Optimizer Memory Makes Shuffle Order a First-Order Source of Fine-Tuning Noise

    Jun 28, 2026John SweeneySingle-Message Shuffle ModelFinetuning

  47. GarmentZoom: Generating Zoomable Images from Garment Listings

    Jun 28, 2026Renjie Zhao, Jingwei Ma, Huy Huynh Cao +3GarmentsSuper-Resolution Framework

  48. Can LLMs Judge Better Than They Generate? Evaluating Task Asymmetry, Mechanistic Interpretability and Transferability for In-Context QA

    Jun 26, 2026Sambaran BandyopadhyaySelf-AssessmentsIn-Context

  49. Low-Agreeableness Persona Conditioning for Safe LLM Fine-Tuning

    Jun 26, 2026Austin MY Cheung, Yi YangLarge Language Model Fine-TuningFinetuning

  50. ZooClaw-FashionSigLIP2: Distilled Fine-tuning for Robust Fashion Retrieval

    Jun 26, 2026Siqiao Xue, Chunxue XuLarge Vision Language ModelsGarments

  51. Memory-Efficient Policy Libraries with Low-Rank Adaptation in Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 24, 2026Samuel Valland Lyngset, Tor Viljen Raanaas, Gard Sveipe +4Reinforcement Fine-TuningLow-Rank Adaptation

  52. Flatness Preserves Instruction Following in Vision-Language-Action Models

    Jun 22, 2026Haochen Zhang, Yonatan BiskVision-LanguageInstruction

  53. Finetuning with Scientific Data Increases Hallucinations: A Multi-domain Factuality Evaluation of LLMs

    Jun 19, 2026Raia Abu Ahmad, Nikolas Rauscher, Ekaterina Borisova +3FactsMultilingual Fact-Checking

  54. Cross-Dataset, Age, and Gender Generalization: A Comprehensive Analysis of Fine-Tuning Strategies for Low-Resource Children's ASR

    Jun 18, 2026Abhijit Sinha, Hemant Kumar Kathania, Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri +1Dysarthric SpeechPitch

  55. DF-ExpEnse: Diffusion Filtered Exploration for Sample Efficient Finetuning

    Jun 17, 2026Calvin Luo, Chen Sun, Shuran SongEfficient ExplorationAutonomous Exploration Strategies

  56. MiqraBERT: Regression-Based Sentence-BERT Finetuning for Biblical Hebrew Parallel Detection

    Jun 17, 2026David M. SmileyBert-Based ModelsGeo-Contextual Alignment

  57. PEFT-MedSAM: Efficient Fine-Tuning of Medical Foundation Models for Explainable Skin Lesion Segmentation

    Jun 17, 2026Asad Channa, Abdullah Khan, Asghar Ali Chandio +4Skin Lesion ClassificationDeep Learning

  58. Domain Generalizable Adaptation of 3D Vision-Language Models via Regularized Fine-Tuning

    Jun 16, 2026Sneha Paul, Zachary Patterson, Nizar BouguilaMultimodal Domain GeneralizationVision-Language Model Adaptation

  59. TuneAhead: Predicting Fine-tuning Performance Before Full Training Begins

    Jun 16, 2026Yuxiang Luo, Haonan Long, Chen Wang +6FinetuningTuning

  60. LiFT: Local Search via Linear Programming for Overfitting-Controlled Transformers

    Jun 15, 2026Abhishek Shukla, Anikeit Khanna, Ankur Sinha +1FinetuningTransformer Architectures