3 papers
cs.CL2026
SEAD: Competence-Aware On-Policy Distillation via Entropy-Guided Supervision
Chia-Hsuan Lee, Zelei Cheng, Yu Wang +4
On-policy distillation (OPD) has a property absent in offline distillation and RL: teacher supervision quality depends on student competence. Incoherent rollouts yield noisy gradie…
cs.CL2026
Decomposing the Delta: What Do Models Actually Learn from Preference Pairs?
Chia-Hsuan Lee, Mingyang Zhou, Renkun Ni +6
Preference optimization methods such as DPO and KTO are widely used for aligning language models, yet little is understood about what properties of preference data drive downstream…
cs.CL2025
SPEAR-MM: Selective Parameter Evaluation and Restoration via Model Merging for Efficient Financial LLM Adaptation
Berkcan Kapusuzoglu, Supriyo Chakraborty, Renkun Ni +2
Large language models (LLMs) adapted to financial domains often suffer from catastrophic forgetting of general reasoning capabilities essential for customer interactions and comple…