Add-One-In: Incremental Sample Selection for Large Language Models via a Choice-Based Greedy Paradigm (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies focus on individual quality and do not assess the value of training data. |
| Approach: | They propose a choice-based sample selection framework that evaluates sample quality . they use LLMs to evaluate the value of each option during the selection process . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms the full dataset and recent studies on a larger medical dataset. |
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