New fine-tuning of language models: Match meaning, not tokens

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Published on 14 May 2026, 17:06
Language models are usually trained to predict the next word, but that does not always lead to the best overall answers. We introduce energy-based fine-tuning, a new method that trains models to produce better full responses, leading to stronger results without the need for complex reward models or verifiers.

Project: energy-based-fine-tuning.githu...
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2603.12248
GitHub: github.com/sjelassi/ebft_openr...

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