Yuanzhi Li

Microsoft Research

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Mar 12, 2026

Microsoft Research4d ago

Matching Features, Not Tokens: Energy-Based Fine-Tuning of Language Models

Ditch the task-specific verifier: energy-based fine-tuning (EBFT) lets you directly optimize sequence-level behavior in LMs, beating SFT and matching RLVR in downstream tasks.

Samy Jelassi, Mujin Kwun, Rosie Zhao +6

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