How to Fine-Tune an LLM: An End-to-End Guide
I ended up fine tuning a mistral 7b to outperform our costly foundational model and saved $300k. I previously thought that fine tuning was pointless (it's definitely not) and that all these problems c
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I ended up fine tuning a mistral 7b to outperform our costly foundational model and saved $300k. I previously thought that fine tuning was pointless (it's definitely not) and that all these problems c
arXiv:2608.24082v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong capabilities in table reasoning, but their effectiveness degrades as tables grow in size and complexity
Benchmarked qwen3.8 xhigh, medium and muse glimmer. Xhigh effort mode with qwen3.8 took almost 30hrs. (And still failed on 16 cases because of the 32K output token limit) Medium effort mode and muse g
arXiv:2504.08846v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce AI University (AI-U), a flexible framework for AI-driven course content delivery that adapts to a course's instructional style. A
arXiv:2608.22108v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Breast Cancer Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) meetings manage increasingly complex cases under considerable time pressure, and documentation requirements c
arXiv:2608.21417v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flexible manufacturing requires industrial robots to be reprogrammed rapidly as product variants change. This paper presents a language-model-based work
arXiv:2608.21393v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Running large language models inside enterprise environments has always bumped up against a practical wall: the data lives in one place, the AI horsepow
arXiv:2608.20519v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Background: Magnetic resonance imaging-guided linear accelerators (MR-Linacs) allow diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) to be acquired at every treatment
arXiv:2608.20804v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Temporal Knowledge Graph (TKG) extrapolation seeks to infer future facts from time-varying relational histories. Recent diffusion-based approaches imp
arXiv:2608.21218v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predictive political question answering (QA), such as predicting how a political actor will vote, goes beyond factual lookup. External political resourc
arXiv:2608.21317v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The European Union (EU) has emerged as a leading regulatory body in the development of sustainability and privacy regulations. While new regulation requ
arXiv:2608.21087v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models have significantly enriched the toolkit for computational humor research, particularly in the automated generation of jokes and pu
arXiv:2608.20840v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in multimodal retrieval have improved the ability to retrieve information from visually rich documents such as PDFs and reports. Howev
arXiv:2608.20402v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Biomedical knowledge graphs (KGs) are pivotal for knowledge organization, yet traditional binary relations often struggle to represent the conditional
arXiv:2608.20640v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-merchant e-commerce catalogs contain equivalent and related products under different merchant-scoped identifiers, fragmenting behavioral evidenc
arXiv:2608.20757v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We describe the PSK submission to the WMT 2026 Multilingual Instruction Shared Task. Our system uses the 3.35B-parameter Tiny Aya Global model with th
arXiv:2608.20630v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: SQL systems increasingly expose AI functions for tasks such as classification, extraction, filtering, ranking, retrieval, joining, and summarization. De
arXiv:2608.20777v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As scientific literature grows and papers increasingly under-report limitations, multi-agent LLMs offer a promising approach to systematically uncover t
I'm building a local AI companion and I'm currently working on its cognitive layer. The goal is: User message → understand intent → decide what context is relevant → retrieve only useful memories/stat
Brace yourselves. We just entered a new era of frontier multimodal models. DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp advances multimodal agent performance. Also, pay attention to Ox Alpha 1M token contexts with te
arXiv:2608.20116v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in settings where textual summaries, numerical observations, and external tool outputs may provide co
arXiv:2608.18988v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieve-then-generate pipelines are commonly used to produce deep-research answers for open-ended questions, but retrieval alone is insufficient: LLM
arXiv:2509.04100v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper explores the combination of Reinforcement Learning (RL) and search-based path planners to speed up the optimization of flight paths for a
arXiv:2608.18386v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large video-language models (LVLMs) have shown remarkable performance on multimodal tasks like multimodal emotion recognition (ER) in the wild. ER is
arXiv:2608.17468v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Storyboards turn screenplays into visual shot plans for automated short drama production. Professional storyboarding relies on tacit directorial experti
arXiv:2608.17164v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Textual context such as news, reports, and logs can provide valuable signals for time series forecasting, especially when future dynamics are driven by
Any LLM will hallucinate the world knowledge, even a 3T model. Use a 4B with a kiwix skill and local Wikipedia, 50gb and no more hallucinated world knowledge. Ask your coding agent to build your own,
arXiv:2502.19507v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In response to the growing need for structured, interoperable agricultural data, this paper presents the Sustainable Wheat Production Datahub, a mod
arXiv:2507.13505v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Cybersecurity simulation environments, such as cyber ranges, honeypots, and sandboxes, require realistic human behavior to be effective, yet n
arXiv:2606.16316v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieving external knowledge is crucial for real-world tasks but remains difficult when queries and relevant knowledge are linked by implicit
arXiv:2608.14509v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Systems that ask a language model to reach a conclusion from many sources usually concatenate them into one prompt. This conflates two operations with d
arXiv:2608.13921v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents increasingly maintain personal memory across sessions, but it can conflict. Preferences depend on context, behavior evolves, and sources can
Hello; I'm a semi-beginner at local AI. I've been experimenting with this tech for a while, and I still haven't found a proper harness that fits my models, hardware, and needs. My use case is pretty s
arXiv:2608.12847v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval can identify a past trajectory that may matter, yet it does not specify how an acting agent should use that trajectory after users, entities,
arXiv:2608.12911v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While the privacy risks of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have drawn significant attention, the unique vulnerabilities of domain-specific MLLM
I'm currently building a very budget-oriented AI / homelab PC using used parts. I've been saving up (I'm a student), and I'm working on a setup costing around 330€ total. The specs are: Xeon E-2124: N
arXiv:2602.01910v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Smart-home sensor-based behavioral monitoring holds significant potential for healthcare, independent living, and early detection of functional or c
arXiv:2608.12932v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models promise to bring end-to-end reasoning to autonomous driving, but their computational cost remains far too high for r
arXiv:2505.15274v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Probabilities of causation (PoCs) are fundamental quantities for counterfactual analysis and personalized decision making. However, existing analyti
I'm working on a local perplexity/AI search comprised of a custom harness and a further trained model. LFM 2.6 is almost to spec with no additional training, it is very good. submitted by /u/thebadsli
arXiv:2608.12961v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The OWL 2 EL profile is used in some of the largest production ontologies, including the Gene Ontology and SNOMED CT. Existing neuro-symbolic (NeSy) lea
arXiv:2604.03236v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-based educational assistants often provide direct answers offering little incentive for students to explore or enga
arXiv:2608.11876v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training and validation of Embodied AI for social navigation critically depends on realistic simulation environments, yet many current approaches fail t
arXiv:2608.11200v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Synthetic dialogue generation offers a way to study conversational dynamics in sensitive domains where real data are difficult to access, release, or
arXiv:2608.10413v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently emerged as a promising paradigm for end-to-end autonomous driving by enabling unified reasoning across
arXiv:2208.11582v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The wide spread of false information online, including misinformation and disinformation, has become a major problem for our highly digitised
arXiv:2608.10406v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Web search, product search, and question-answering retrieval systems often assign a relevance label and confidence score to each query-candidate pair.
arXiv:2608.08163v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The convergence of the Metaverse and Large Language Model (LLM)-based AI agent is catalyzing a shift toward autonomous, immersive, and personalized peda
Knowledge is rather abstract and philosophical. So what does it mean from an agentic context? How does providing the right knowledge at the right time to an agent increase its accuracy, task completio
arXiv:2608.07067v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-document understanding requires locating sparse and heterogeneous evidence across hundreds of pages, yet existing systems remain limited by static
arXiv:2608.07370v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific literature is increasingly used as a knowledge source for language models, retrieval-augmented generation systems, and research assistants, b
arXiv:2608.07446v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) in enterprise settings has introduced operational, security, and governance risks. As generative AI app
arXiv:2608.07303v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Comparisons between AutoML systems at short time budgets -- tens of seconds rather than hours -- are common in tool READMEs and workshop papers, and the
arXiv:2608.05266v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents are increasingly being developed to control a wide range of scientific characterization tools including microscopes and sync
Modern enterprises possess a vast amount of unstructured data, yet they frequently encounter significant challenges in managing and extracting value from it. Historically, unlocking the insights hidde
arXiv:2608.04625v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrial recommendation strategy iteration heavily relies on large-scale A/B experimentation. Traditional tuning requires experts to repeatedly design
arXiv:2608.01791v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The rapid development of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) is shifting the design flow from traditional graphical user interface (GUI)-based
arXiv:2608.05138v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern Greek is absent from NVIDIA's Nemotron retrieval models and from major multilingual retrieval benchmarks, despite being important for retrieval
arXiv:2608.02613v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Edge-deployed personal memory assistants must handle private interpersonal conversations on-device with open-weight models. Yet, existing memory bench
arXiv:2604.01622v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion language models (DLMs) enable parallel, non-autoregressive text generation, yet existing DLM mixture-of-experts (MoE) models inherit