Mashup Learning: Faster Finetuning by Remixing Past Checkpoints
Finetuning on domain-specific data is a well-established method for enhancing LLM performance on downstream tasks. Training on each dataset produces a new set of model weights, resulting in a multitude of checkpoints saved in-house or on open-source platforms. However, these training artifacts are rarely reused for subsequent experiments despite containing improved model abilities for potentially similar tasks. In this paper, we propose Mashup Learning, a simple method to leverage the outputs of prior training runs to enhance model […]