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LM-Mixup enhances LLM instruction tuning by distilling low-quality data

Researchers have introduced LM-Mixup, a novel method for augmenting text data to improve instruction tuning in Large Language Models (LLMs). This technique addresses the scarcity of high-quality data by distilling abundant, low-quality or redundant data into coherent instruction-output pairs. The LM-Mixup process involves supervised fine-tuning on a distilled dataset called MIXTURE, followed by reinforcement learning using quality, semantic alignment, and format compliance rewards via Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO). Experiments show that LLMs fine-tuned on data augmented with LM-Mixup outperform those trained on the full dataset and rival state-of-the-art data selection methods, demonstrating the value of distilled low-quality data. AI

IMPACT Enhances LLM efficiency and performance by enabling better utilization of low-quality data for instruction tuning.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains a research paper detailing a new method for data augmentation in LLMs. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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LM-Mixup enhances LLM instruction tuning by distilling low-quality data

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Zhijie Deng, Zhouan Shen, Ling Li, Yao Zhou, Zhaowei Zhu, Yanji He, Wei Wang, Jiaheng Wei ·

    LM-mixup: Text Data Augmentation via Language Model based Mixup

    arXiv:2510.20449v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Instruction tuning is crucial for aligning Large Language Models (LLMs), yet the quality of instruction-following data varies significantly. While high-quality data is paramount, it is often scarce; conversely, abundant low-qual…