Is Human-Readable Text Necessary for Effective LLM Fine-Tuning?

arXiv:2609.35868 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-26 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-26

Updated: 2026-09-26

Code: https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-models

Terminology

• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• Program Synthesis with Large Language Models
• A Qualitative Test-Risk Mechanism for Scaling Behavior in Normalized Residual Networks
• Think you have Solved Question Answering? Try ARC, the AI2 Reasoning Challenge
• Training Verifiers to Solve Math Word Problems
• The Llama 3 Herd of Models
• Qwen3 Technical Report
• Dataset Distillation
• Transferable text data distillation by trajectory matching
• Dataset Condensation with Distribution Matching

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