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Qwen3-8B fine-tuning methods explored for financial data adaptation

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Researchers have explored domain adaptation techniques for fine-tuning the Qwen3-8B model on financial data, aiming to enhance task performance without sacrificing general capabilities. They compared three training methods: response-only LoRA, single-adapter reasoning with teacher model traces, and dual-adapter composite training. The response-only approach improved in-domain metrics like calibration and argmax accuracy while retaining general capabilities close to the original model. Including reasoning traces in single-adapter training did not yield further improvements over the response-only method, and dual-adapter training showed no additional gains. AI

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Qwen3-8B fine-tuning methods explored for financial data adaptation

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Saleh Ashkboos, Dhruv Desai, Lavinia Ghita ·

    Reasoning Supervision and Capability Retention in LoRA Domain Adaptation

    arXiv:2611.17072v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fine-tuning foundation models on financial data has a wide range of applications, including identifying event types from news, monitoring risk and compliance language, and answering questions over filings and earnings calls. In this…

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