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arXiv cs.CLPaper8d ago

Good Pretraining, Bad SFT: Checkpoint Quality Across the Training Stack

This matters if you're training your own models or selecting checkpoints from others. The insight is that robustness under weight perturbations predicts downstream task performance better than raw benchmark scores. Use solution density as a checkpoint selection signal, especially for production fine-tuning.

research training model-selection pretraining

arXiv cs.LGPaper16d ago

Which LLM for Which Work? Budgeted Model Allocation under Uncertain Evaluation

This is practical and well-scoped. You have multiple LLMs, a fixed budget, uncertain cost-quality tradeoffs, and you need to assign them to workloads today. The paper's insight: you don't always need the full performance matrix to make the right call. For ops teams: this could improve your model routing. For founders: this is the decision problem you'll face when supporting multiple backends.

research llm-operations model-selection