Scalable, Transferable Meta-network for Data Selection Requires a Different Loss (and Why the Obvious Choice is Problematic)

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arXiv:2610.02092v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data selection is critical for training large language models on massive and heterogeneous corpora. Meta-learning for Training-data Selection offers a principled alternative to heuristic scoring by learning data weights from a target validation objective, but existing methods face a trade-off between fine-grained valuation and transferability to unseen data. A natural solution is to replace per-sample weights with a selection network. However, we