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20242026
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8 papers

cs.LG2026

Looking in the Mirror: Introspecting Side-Effect Misalignments Induced by Fine-Tuning

Kotaro Yoshida, Laura Gomezjurado Gonzalez, Yukinori Yamamoto +3

Fine-tuning enables a source model to acquire desired capabilities and behaviors in a target domain while retaining much of its general-purpose competence. However, this adaptation…

cs.LG2026

DisTaC: Conditioning Task Vectors via Distillation for Robust Model Merging

Kotaro Yoshida, Yuji Naraki, Takafumi Horie +2

Model merging has emerged as an efficient and flexible paradigm for multi-task learning, with numerous methods being proposed in recent years. However, these state-of-the-art techn…

cs.LG2026

On Fairness of Task Arithmetic: The Role of Task Vectors

Hiroki Naganuma, Kotaro Yoshida, Laura Gomezjurado Gonzalez +3

Model editing techniques, particularly task arithmetic with task vectors, offer an efficient alternative to full fine-tuning by enabling direct parameter updates through simple ari…

cs.LG2026

Generalization Measures under Controlled Covariate Shift: A Regime-Aware Benchmark

Sora Nakai, Youssef Fadhloun, Kacem Mathlouthi +4

Predicting generalization from quantities available before target-test evaluation remains a central challenge in deep learning. The systematic benchmark of Jiang et al. (2020) eval…

cs.LG2025

How Does Preconditioning Guide Feature Learning in Deep Neural Networks?

Kotaro Yoshida, Atsushi Nitanda

Preconditioning is widely used in machine learning to accelerate convergence on the empirical risk, yet its role on the expected risk remains underexplored. In this work, we invest…

cs.LG2025

Robust Invariant Representation Learning by Distribution Extrapolation

Kotaro Yoshida, Konstantinos Slavakis

Invariant risk minimization (IRM) aims to enable out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization in deep learning by learning invariant representations. As IRM poses an inherently challen…