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Hidden Cartographer: Hidden State Guided Data Selection for Dual Budgeted Instruction Tuning

Zixuan Qin, Qi Qin, Erbo Li, Ting Wei +2 more

Published

Oct 18, 2026

Citations

0

Trust level

Low

Usefulness score

0/100 (Low)

Extraction confidence

35% (Low)

Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.

Rater population

Domain Experts

Signals refreshed

Oct 18, 2026

Should you rely on this paper?

This paper is adjacent to HFEPX scope and is best used for background context, not as a primary protocol reference.

Use this as background context only. Do not make protocol decisions from this page alone.

Best use

Background context only

Use if you need

A secondary eval reference to pair with stronger protocol papers.

What to verify

Validate the evaluation procedure and quality controls in the full paper before operational use.

Main weakness

This paper looks adjacent to evaluation work, but not like a strong protocol reference.

Human feedback signal
Not explicit
Not explicit in abstract metadata
Evaluation signal
Detected
Eval setup described
Usefulness for eval research
0/100
Adjacent candidate

Treat as adjacent context, not a core eval-method reference.

Abstract

Given the high cost of expert annotation and limited fine-tuning resources, effective data selection from large unlabeled pools under strict budgets has become a crucial step in adapting LLMs to specialized domains. Existing label-dependent methods risk distorted selection when using pseudo-labels, while traditional active learning methods do not explicitly characterize instruction-tuning dynamics. To address these limitations, we propose Hidden Cartographer (HC), a two-stage framework that uses hidden states to guide annotation and exact training dynamics to select the final training subset. The first stage is Progressive Candidate Expansion, which utilizes the proxy to iteratively select top unlabeled candidates for expert annotation, merging them to recompute training dynamics and update the proxy until the annotation budget is exhausted; the second stage is Exact Cartography Pruning, which ranks these annotated candidates by their exact dynamics scores to isolate a compact subset under the final training budget. Experiments across the medical, legal, and financial domains demonstrate that HC achieves the highest average accuracy among all budgeted baselines, requiring annotation for only 20--30% of the original pool and fine-tuning on just 10--15%.

What we could verify

These are the protocol signals we could actually recover from the available paper metadata. Use them to decide whether this paper is worth deeper reading.

Human Feedback Types

missing

None explicit

No explicit feedback protocol extracted.

"Given the high cost of expert annotation and limited fine-tuning resources, effective data selection from large unlabeled pools under strict budgets has become a crucial step in adapting LLMs to specialized domains."

Evaluation Modes

partial

Automatic Metrics

Includes extracted eval setup.

"Given the high cost of expert annotation and limited fine-tuning resources, effective data selection from large unlabeled pools under strict budgets has become a crucial step in adapting LLMs to specialized domains."

Quality Controls

missing

Not reported

No explicit QC controls found.

"Given the high cost of expert annotation and limited fine-tuning resources, effective data selection from large unlabeled pools under strict budgets has become a crucial step in adapting LLMs to specialized domains."

Benchmarks / Datasets

missing

Not extracted

No benchmark anchors detected.

"Given the high cost of expert annotation and limited fine-tuning resources, effective data selection from large unlabeled pools under strict budgets has become a crucial step in adapting LLMs to specialized domains."

Reported Metrics

partial

Accuracy

Useful for evaluation criteria comparison.

"Experiments across the medical, legal, and financial domains demonstrate that HC achieves the highest average accuracy among all budgeted baselines, requiring annotation for only 20--30% of the original pool and fine-tuning on just 10--15%."

Rater Population

partial

Domain Experts

Helpful for staffing comparability.

"Given the high cost of expert annotation and limited fine-tuning resources, effective data selection from large unlabeled pools under strict budgets has become a crucial step in adapting LLMs to specialized domains."

Benchmarks and datasets

No benchmark or dataset names were extracted from the available abstract.

Reported metrics

accuracy
Human feedback details
Uses human feedback
No
Feedback types
None
Rater population
Domain Experts
Expertise required
Medicine
Evaluation details
Evaluation modes
Automatic Metrics
Agentic eval
None
Quality controls
Not reported
Evidence quality
Low
Use this page as
Background context only

Research brief

Metadata summary

Given the high cost of expert annotation and limited fine-tuning resources, effective data selection from large unlabeled pools under strict budgets has become a crucial step in adapting LLMs to specialized domains.

Based on abstract + metadata only. Check the source paper before making high-confidence protocol decisions.

Key takeaways

  • Given the high cost of expert annotation and limited fine-tuning resources, effective data selection from large unlabeled pools under strict budgets has become a crucial step in adapting LLMs to specialized domains.
  • Existing label-dependent methods risk distorted selection when using pseudo-labels, while traditional active learning methods do not explicitly characterize instruction-tuning dynamics.
  • To address these limitations, we propose Hidden Cartographer (HC), a two-stage framework that uses hidden states to guide annotation and exact training dynamics to select the final training subset.

Researcher actions

  • Compare this paper against nearby papers in the same arXiv category before using it for protocol decisions.
  • Validate inferred eval signals (Automatic metrics) against the full paper.
  • Use related-paper links to find stronger protocol-specific references.

Caveats

  • Generated from abstract + metadata only; no PDF parsing.
  • Signals below are heuristic and may miss details reported outside the abstract.

Contribution summary

  • To address these limitations, we propose Hidden Cartographer (HC), a two-stage framework that uses hidden states to guide annotation and exact training dynamics to select the final training subset.
  • Experiments across the medical, legal, and financial domains demonstrate that HC achieves the highest average accuracy among all budgeted baselines, requiring annotation for only 20--30% of the original pool and fine-tuning on just 10--15%.

Why it matters for eval

  • Abstract shows limited direct human-feedback or evaluation-protocol detail; use as adjacent methodological context.

Researcher checklist

  • Human feedback protocol is explicit

    No explicit human feedback protocol detected.

  • Evaluation mode is explicit

    Detected: Automatic Metrics

  • Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    No benchmark/dataset anchor extracted from abstract.

  • Metric reporting is present

    Detected: accuracy