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Agents / Training & Fine-Tuning By Dewu Zheng 2026-08-27
SWE-Prime: Fewer Trajectories, Better Performance

The researchers introduced SWE-Prime, a method that selects a small, high-quality subset of training trajectories to improve software engineering agent performance.

Computer Vision / Training & Fine-Tuning By Wenxuan Shen 2026-08-25
Game2World Engine: Unlocking In-the-Wild Gameplay Videos for World Model Training

The authors introduce GameCleaner and the Game2World engine to remove distracting interface elements from game footage to improve the training of world models.

Training & Fine-Tuning / Reinforcement Learning By Yiwen Zhang 2026-08-25
Robust Code RL via Faulty-Code-Driven Test case Synthesis and Dense Reward Shaping

The paper introduces a framework called RobustTests that improves AI code generation by synthesizing diverse, failure-inducing test cases to guide reinforcement learning.

Training & Fine-Tuning / Reasoning By Wenze Lin 2026-08-25
On-policy Distillation with Verifiable Reward

The paper introduces a method called OPDVR that aligns reinforcement learning signal with task success during model distillation to improve reasoning performance.

Training & Fine-Tuning / Benchmarks & Evals By Kaiyuan Liu 2026-08-25 1
RecurSE: Bounded Recursive Self-Evaluation for LLM Rubric Judges

RecurSE enables LLM-based judges to improve their evaluation performance by creating a bounded, self-correcting feedback loop that eliminates the need for external gold standard rewards.

Training & Fine-Tuning / Reinforcement Learning By Penghui Qi 2026-08-24
How to Train a Critic Stably and Efficiently

The paper introduces BPCO, a method that stabilizes critic-based reinforcement learning, improving performance across various model sizes and tasks.

Training & Fine-Tuning / Benchmarks & Evals By Parsa Bakhtiari 2026-08-24
Industrial-Instruction: An End-to-End Framework for Building Instruction-Tuning and Benchmark Datasets from Industrial Technical Reports

The authors present an end-to-end framework to automatically generate instruction-tuning and benchmark datasets from complex industrial technical documents.

Agents / Training & Fine-Tuning By TaoLive AIGC LLM Team 2026-08-22 1
Training Agents to Evolve with Their Harness: TaoLive Digital Avatar Agent Technical Report

The paper introduces a method called Harness Evolution that improves agent adaptability and performance for live-streaming environments by decoupling execution settings from the base model.

Computer Vision / Training & Fine-Tuning By Marko Haralović 2026-08-21
When Adaptation Hurts: Connecting Representational Drift to OOD Failures in MedSAM Fine-Tuning

The paper identifies that representational drift in the decoder and output layers significantly impacts out of distribution performance when fine-tuning the MedSAM medical image segmentation foundation model.

Training & Fine-Tuning / Efficiency & Inference By Bakbergen Ryskulov 2026-08-21
Quantization-Aware Healing: A Practical Recipe for Recovering Compressed, 4-Bit LLMs

The paper introduces Quantization-Aware Healing, a practical recipe for recovering compressed 4-bit large language models, and uses it to produce the open-weight model Hypernova-60B.

Robotics / Training & Fine-Tuning By Varun Giridhar 2026-08-21
Beyond Imitation: Self-Improving Robot Policies via Off-Policy Q-Planning

The paper presents a method that enables robot policies to self-improve through iterative deployment without the need to modify the original policy weights.

Training & Fine-Tuning / Efficiency & Inference By Zeyun Zhong 2026-08-21
Rethinking Expressivity and Efficiency in Test-Time Training

The paper introduces E2-TTT, a new method for Test-Time Training that uses chunk-wise updates to achieve higher performance while maintaining computational efficiency.

Training & Fine-Tuning / Safety & Alignment By Chengxiao Wang 2026-08-21
CLEAR: Continuous Latent Adapter Routing for Utility-Preserving LLM Safety Alignment

The paper introduces a routing mechanism that applies safety interventions only when harmful inputs are detected, preserving model utility for benign prompts.

Training & Fine-Tuning / Computer Vision By Yansen Han 2026-08-20
Manifold Drift in Flow Preference Optimization: A Root Cause of Reward Hacking

The paper introduces ThermoDPO, a new training method that stabilizes generative model output by preventing reward-driven distortion of the underlying data distribution.

Training & Fine-Tuning / Efficiency & Inference By Nayeon Kim 2026-08-20
Let's Scale Step by Step: Compute-Efficient Hyperparameter Transfer for Large-Scale Mixture-of-Experts

The paper introduces a method to extrapolate optimal learning rates for Mixture of Experts models using small-scale proxy runs to avoid expensive full-scale sweeps.

Agents / Training & Fine-Tuning By Fengqing Jiang 2026-08-20
MidTool: Mid-training Data Synthesis for Agentic Tool Use

The researchers created a 20.3B-token corpus called MidTool-Mix to improve agentic tool-use capabilities in models during the mid-training phase rather than relying solely on post-training.

Training & Fine-Tuning / Benchmarks & Evals By Qian Kou 2026-08-20
Inject, Align, Recover: Staged Post-Training for Retrieval-Free Document Knowledge Internalization

The researchers developed a staged training method called IAR to improve how models store and answer questions about specific document sets without needing retrieval systems.

Training & Fine-Tuning By Hwan Chang 2026-08-14
Scaling Creative Writing Beyond Story-Centric Data with Attribute-Guided Genre Expansion

Researchers developed a method using attribute guided genre expansion to train language models on diverse creative formats beyond basic narrative generation.

Training & Fine-Tuning By Pin-Yen Huang 2026-08-14
RecipeNet: A Hierarchical Transformer for Recipe Data

RecipeNet is a hierarchical transformer model designed to process heterogeneous recipe data with variable schemas and sequential procedural steps.

Training & Fine-Tuning By Utkarsh Agarwal 2026-08-14
Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization for Model Merging

The paper introduces a multi-objective optimization framework to automatically select the best merge parameters for combining specialized neural network models.