[Paper] Influcoder: Distilling Decoders' Gradient Influence Rankings into an Encoder for Data Attribution

Source: arXiv - 2606.13668v1

Overview

With the growth of LLMs’ (Large Language Models) capabilities, there has been an increasing push to curate high quality datasets by filtering samples in the training data. In general, Data Attribution (DA) methods aim to estimate how individual samples in a training dataset can precondition a model to generate certain outputs. As an example, one might be interested in which samples in the data could be the source of toxic behavior after training the LLM. Many methods quantify this conditioning through the paradigm of influence functions. While methods of this family are effective in its function, they lack the necessary processing speed and storage compactness to be practically implemented on large datasets. We propose a method, Influcoder, as a quick and cost-effective approach to influence-based Data Attribution at scale.

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Authors

• Dimitri Kachler
• Damien Sileo
• Pascal Denis

Paper Information

• arXiv ID: 2606.13668v1
• Categories: cs.CL
• Published: June 11, 2026
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