arxivcs.LG2026-07-15
Self-Improving is Often Sudden: Enlightenment-style Finetuning for Large-Scale Models
Jing-Xiao Liao, Tianwei Zhang, Yu-Hao Jiang, Feifei Zhang, Hang-Cheng Dong, Feng-Lei Fan
The pursuit of autonomously self-improving models has attracted growing interest in the era of large-scale foundation models. Drawing inspiration from the concept of "enlightenment" or "aha moment" in human brain, we hypothesize that large models exhibit an analogous enlightenmen…