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Sharpness-aware mini- mization improves language model generalization.arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.08529

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The allure of superhuman-level capabilities has led to considerable interest in language models like GPT-3 and T5, wherein the research has, by and large, revolved around new model architectures, training tasks, and loss objectives, along with substantial engineering efforts to scale up model capacity and dataset size. Comparatively little work has been done to improve the generalization of these models through better optimization. In this work, we show that Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM), a recently proposed optimization procedure that encourages convergence to flatter minima, can substantially improve the generalization of language models without much computational overhead. We show that SAM is able to boost performance on SuperGLUE, GLUE, Web Questions, Natural Questions, Trivia QA, and TyDiQA, with particularly large gains when training data for these tasks is limited.

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SAMPLe: SAM-based Optimizer for Prompt Learning in VLMs

cs.CV · 2026-07-07 · conditional · novelty 5.0

SAMPLe adds dual gradient constraints (ERM alignment plus full-batch orthogonality) to SAM-style prompt learning and raises harmonic-mean base-to-new accuracy across CoOp, CoCoOp, MaPLe, TCP and CoPrompt.

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