2 papers
cs.CL2026
GIFT: Guided Fine-Tuning and Transfer for Enhancing Instruction-Tuned Language Models
Zhiwen Ruan, Yichao Du, Jianjie Zheng +6
A promising paradigm for adapting instruction-tuned language models is to learn task-specific updates on a pretrained base model and subsequently merge them into the instruction-tu…
cs.LG2026
SPEC-RL: Accelerating On-Policy Reinforcement Learning with Speculative Rollouts
Bingshuai Liu, Ante Wang, Zijun Min +7
Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly rely on reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) to elicit reliable chain-of-thought reasoning. However, the training process…