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Some complex problems, such as image tagging and natural language processing, are very challenging for computers, where even state-of-the-art technology is yet able to provide satisfactory accuracy. Therefore, rather than relying solely on…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Xuan Liu , Meiyu Lu , Beng Chin Ooi , Yanyan Shen , Sai Wu , Meihui Zhang

Few-shot image classification aims to classify images from unseen novel classes with few samples. Recent works demonstrate that deep local descriptors exhibit enhanced representational capabilities compared to image-level features. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Qian Qiao , Yu Xie , Ziyin Zeng , Fanzhang Li

TADS are a novel, concise white-box representation of neural networks. In this paper, we apply TADS to the problem of neural network verification, using them to generate either proofs or concise error characterizations for desirable neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Gerrit Nolte , Maximilian Schlüter , Alnis Murtovi , Bernhard Steffen

Large language models (LLMs) have shown great potential in code-related tasks, yet open-source models lag behind their closed-source counterparts. To bridge this performance gap, existing methods generate vast amounts of synthetic data for…

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Data-efficient learning aims to eliminate redundancy in large training datasets by training models on smaller subsets of the most informative examples. While data selection has been extensively explored for vision models and large language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Nilay Naharas , Dang Nguyen , Nesihan Bulut , Mohammadhossein Bateni , Vahab Mirrokni , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

Adapting pre-trained models with broad capabilities has become standard practice for learning a wide range of downstream tasks. The typical approach of fine-tuning different models for each task is performant, but incurs a substantial…

In continual instruction tuning (CIT) scenarios, where new instruction tuning data continuously arrive in an online streaming manner, training delays from large-scale data significantly hinder real-time adaptation. Data selection can…

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High-quality pre-training data is crutial for large language models, where quality captures factual reliability and semantic value, and diversity ensures broad coverage and distributional heterogeneity. Existing approaches typically rely on…

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In this paper, we introduce Context-Aware Priority Sampling (CAPS), a novel method designed to enhance data efficiency in learning-based autonomous driving systems. CAPS addresses the challenge of imbalanced datasets in imitation learning…

Recently, large-scale pre-trained vision-language models (e.g., CLIP), have garnered significant attention thanks to their powerful representative capabilities. This inspires researchers in transferring the knowledge from these large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Bin Wang , Wentong Li , Wenqian Wang , Mingliang Gao , Runmin Cong , Wei Zhang

Instruction tuning has achieved unprecedented success in NLP, turning large language models into versatile chatbots. However, the increasing variety and volume of instruction datasets demand significant computational resources. To address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Jipeng Zhang , Yaxuan Qin , Renjie Pi , Weizhong Zhang , Rui Pan , Tong Zhang

Data-Free Meta-Learning (DFML) aims to enable efficient learning of unseen few-shot tasks, by meta-learning from multiple pre-trained models without accessing their original training data. While existing DFML methods typically generate…

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Dataset pruning aims to construct a coreset capable of achieving performance comparable to the original, full dataset. Most existing dataset pruning methods rely on snapshot-based criteria to identify representative samples, often resulting…

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In recent years, data selection has emerged as a core issue for large-scale visual-language model pretraining, especially on noisy web-curated datasets. One widely adopted strategy assigns quality scores such as CLIP similarity for each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Yiping Wang , Yifang Chen , Wendan Yan , Kevin Jamieson , Simon Shaolei Du

A fine-grained data recipe is crucial for pre-training large language models, as it can significantly enhance training efficiency and model performance. One important ingredient in the recipe is to select samples based on scores produced by…

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Multi-task reinforcement learning (MTRL) aims to train a single agent to efficiently optimize performance across multiple tasks simultaneously. However, jointly optimizing all tasks often yields imbalanced learning: agents quickly solve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Nicholas E. Corrado , Wenyuan Huang , Josiah P. Hanna

Large-scale Visual Instruction Tuning (VIT) has become a key paradigm for advancing the performance of vision-language models (VLMs) across various multimodal tasks. However, training on the large-scale datasets is computationally expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Changti Wu , Jiahuai Mao , Yuzhuo Miao , Shijie Lian , Bin Yu , Xiaopeng Lin , Cong Huang , Lei Zhang , Kai Chen

Instruction tuning has emerged as a critical paradigm for improving the capabilities and alignment of large language models (LLMs). However, existing iterative model-aware data selection methods incur significant computational overhead, as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Xiaotian Lin , Yanlin Qi , Yizhang Zhu , Themis Palpanas , Chengliang Chai , Nan Tang , Yuyu Luo

Instruction tuning has become the de facto method to equip large language models (LLMs) with the ability of following user instructions. Usually, hundreds of thousands or millions of instruction-following pairs are employed to fine-tune the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Qianlong Du , Chengqing Zong , Jiajun Zhang

Instruction tuning data are often quantity-saturated due to the large volume of data collection and fast model iteration, leaving data selection important but underexplored. Existing quality-driven data selection methods, such as LIMA…

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