2 papers
cs.AI2026
Model Specific Task Similarity for Vision Language Model Selection via Layer Conductance
Wei Yang, Hong Xie, Tao Tan +3
While open sourced Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have proliferated, selecting the optimal pretrained model for a specific downstream task remains challenging. Exhaustive evaluation…
cs.LG2026
Demystifying Design Choices of Reinforcement Fine-tuning: A Batched Contextual Bandit Learning Perspective
Hong Xie, Xiao Hu, Tao Tan +5
The reinforcement fine-tuning area is undergoing an explosion papers largely on optimizing design choices. Though performance gains are often claimed, inconsistent conclusions also…