Warianty LoRA (DoRA, LoRA+, AdaLoRA) (LoRA variants): Refinements of basic LoRA: separating weight magnitude and direction, different learning rates for the two adapter matrices, adaptive rank allocation. They aim to close the gap to full fine-tuning.
GRPO i warianty bez krytyka (GRPO and critic-free policy optimization): A PPO variant without a separate value model: the model samples a group of answers to the same prompt and estimates advantage relative to rewards within that group. This reduces memory requirements and is used in several newer reasoning-training recipes.
Klasyczny RLHF: SFT → model nagrody → PPO (Classic RLHF pipeline with PPO): The three-stage RLHF recipe popularised by InstructGPT: supervised fine-tuning on demonstrations, training a reward model from human rankings, then policy optimisation with PPO while constraining divergence from a reference model.
Stabilność treningu i skoki straty (Training stability): Diagnosing and mitigating instabilities such as sudden spikes or divergence in loss during long training runs of large models. The problems can be reproduced in smaller models to test safeguards in the training recipe.
Mid-training (późna faza pretrainingu) (Mid-training): A late pretraining phase on a smaller, carefully chosen data mix (e.g. maths, code, reasoning, long documents), usually while the learning rate is annealed. It strengthens selected capabilities before post-training.
Wydłużanie okna kontekstu (Context window extension): Further training intended to improve performance on sequences longer than those used previously — often by modifying positional encoding and training on long examples.
Ewolucyjne łączenie modeli (Evolutionary model merging): An evolutionary algorithm searches weight mixtures or layer compositions instead of relying on one hand-designed recipe. The source paper also demonstrates merging models specialised in different domains.