arXiv AI

Fast Wireless Foundation Models with Early-Exits

arXiv:2606. 29640v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While wireless foundation models (FMs) are demonstrating strong potential to enable AI-Native 6G networks, their high computational cost remains a critical barrier to deployment.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 10

A Unified Adaptive Feature Composition Framework for Multi-Task Generalization in Wireless Foundation Models

arXiv:2606. 10277v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Though wireless foundation models (WFMs) have shown strong potential in learning universal channel representations, their adaptation to various downstream tasks remains constrained by existing paradigms.

By Yuxuan Shi, Tingting Yang, Kangning Ma, Liwen Jing, Yuwei Wang, Mengfan Zheng, Li Sun
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 18

6G Native AI and Channel Foundation Models

arXiv:2608. 14591v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and wireless communications is widely regarded as a core objective of sixth-generation (6G) systems.

By Shugong Xu, Jun Jiang, Yuan Gao
arXiv AI
Sep 16

FlexEE: Self-Speculative and KV-Compatible Early Exiting for Offloading-Aware LLM Inference

FlexEE is an early‑exiting framework designed for large language model inference that is constrained by computation and memory, particularly in offloading‑based deployments. It uses layer‑wise exit supervision, self‑speculative decoding over a Top‑K local vocabulary, and dynamic hidden‑state management to enable reliable intermediate‑layer predictions and memory‑aware execution. Experiments on Llama2‑7B and Llama3‑8B show that FlexEE achieves significant speedups—up to 1.27×/3.16× and 1.25×/2.83× respectively—while maintaining minimal accuracy loss.

By Qihu Xie, Ziwei Li, Yi Kang
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 9

ZipDepth: Bringing Lightweight Zero-Shot Monocular Depth Anywhere, on Any Device

Monocular depth estimation has seen remarkable progress through foundation models achieving robust zero-shot generalization, yet their computational demands place them far beyond the reach of embedded and mobile platforms. Lightweight alternatives exist, but have been developed almost exclusively within single-domain, self-supervised paradigms, failing silently under domain shift.

arXiv AI
4d ago

IronLLM: Forging Compact Edge-Native Language Models for Real-Time Embodied Intelligence

IronLLM-0.6B is a 654‑million‑parameter language model engineered for efficient on‑device inference, featuring a hybrid attention architecture, X‑MTP multi‑token prediction, and a lightweight verification head that yields a 1.48× decoding speedup. Trained on roughly 6.2 trillion tokens with a quality‑oriented pipeline and further refined via Multi‑Domain On‑Policy Distillation, the model adopts an Instruct‑Only design to meet low‑latency requirements. A lighter variant, IronLLM‑0.6B‑Light, replaces RMSNorm with Dynamic Tanh and streamlines costly components to enhance inference and quantization efficiency, offering a strong performance‑efficiency trade‑off for resource‑constrained deployment.

By Changdi Yang, Fengquan Jiao, Haochih Lin, Haoran Yang, Jing Xiao, Liangyu Huo, Suxin Lu, Tiance Chen, Wei Liu, Yinggan Xu, Yunxiang Lu, Zai Zheng, Zhirui Xie, Zhongyang Che, Ziyan Tang, Zuoxiang Zhao, Jian Yao
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 14

Adaptive AI: Energy Efficient Multi-exit TinyML on Intelligent Vision Systems at the Edge

The paper presents a novel multi‑exit computational scheme for TinyML on an ultra‑low‑power GAP9 SoC, adding confidence‑based gating points to a MobileNetV2 CNN for ImageNet‑100. By allowing inference to stop early, the approach cuts average MAC operations by 41 % (from 313 MMAC to 185 MMAC), reduces inference time by 29 % (49 ms to 35 ms), and saves 24 % in energy (2.1 mJ to 1.6 mJ per frame) with only a ~1 % drop in accuracy. Compared to a state‑of‑the‑art adaptive CNN on the same hardware, the method more than doubles computational efficiency, raising MAC/cycle from 8.1 to 17.2.

By Luca Crupi, Lorenzo Lamberti, Alessandro Giusti, Daniele Palossi
arXiv AI
Sep 7

Wireless Foundation Models: State-of-the-Art and Open Challenges

The paper surveys wireless foundation models (WFMs), highlighting their role in learning reusable representations from large-scale wireless data for physical-layer tasks. It systematically reviews WFM design components—pretraining, backbone architectures, and downstream adaptation—and categorizes the literature into five task families: signal recognition and demodulation, channel representation learning, RF sensing and localization, beam management, and spectrum sensing and monitoring, including multi-task models. The analysis reveals that while WFMs show promise, evidence of transferability varies across tasks and evaluation settings, and differences in datasets, modalities, architectures, and distribution shifts hinder clear conclusions about effective design choices.

By Alonso M. Pacheco Huachaca, Juan J. Rodriguez Rodriguez, Ahmed Aboulfotouh, Nelson L. S. da Fonseca, Carlos A. Astudillo, Hatem Abou-Zeid
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30

Depth Exploration for LLM Decoding

arXiv:2606. 29223v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive LLM decoding evaluates every generated token through the full layer stack, even though many tokens become predictable at intermediate depths.

By Weisi Yang, Zipeng Sun, Stephen Xia