arXiv:2608. 11661v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A multiplicative dual-encoder network computes a real-valued output for a pair of inputs as the inner product of their separate encodings.
By Zijian Zhao, Sen Li
arXiv:2601. 16991v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Adapting large pre-trained language models to downstream tasks often entails fine-tuning millions of parameters or deploying costly dense weight updates, which hinders their use in resource-constrained environments.
By Longteng Zhang, Sen Wu, Shuai Hou, Zhengyu Qing, Zhuo Zheng, Danning Ke, Qihong Lin, Qiang Wang, Shaohuai Shi, Xiaowen Chu
arXiv:2607. 15498v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The key-value (KV) cache is the main memory bottleneck in long-context large language model (LLM) inference.
By Shahrzad Esmat, Dhawal Shah, Ali Jannesari
arXiv:2606. 03879v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As foundation models scale toward fusing more heterogeneous visual streams, understanding how diverse encoders interact under joint training becomes a prerequisite for principled design.
By Wei Ding, Yudong Zhang, Ruobing Xie, Xingwu Sun, Jiansheng Chen, Yu Wang
arXiv:2606. 18811v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learned sparse retrieval (LSR) models such as SPLADE have traditionally used BERT-style masked language models as backbone encoders.
By Youngjoon Jang, Seongtae Hong, Jonah Turner, Heuiseok Lim
arXiv:2608. 09227v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Omnimodal language models (OLMs) enable unified audio-visual understanding, but processing long joint token sequences makes inference computationally prohibitive.
By Puneet Mathur, Manan Suri, Dinesh Manocha
Omnimodal language models (OLMs) enable unified audio-visual understanding, but processing long joint token sequences makes inference computationally prohibitive. While recent token compression methods attempt to alleviate this burden, compressing modalities in isolation often destroys the temporal cross-modal anchors necessary for coherent reasoning.
arXiv:2607. 12550v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The key-value (KV) cache has become the dominant memory cost of transformer inference.
By Rahul Krishnan, Volker Schulz
arXiv:2607. 06523v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-context language model inference is increasingly limited by the memory bandwidth and capacity required to store key-value caches, yet existing compression methods often apply uniform budgets across layers or tokens and degrade retrieval when lexical cues and semantic states require different preservation.
By Anna Cordoba, Adam Puente Tercero, Nerea Angulo Hijo, Mar Linares Tercero, Julia Barrientos, Ainhoa Miranda, Jesus Olivera
arXiv:2607. 03994v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern language models generally represent text as sequences of discrete token embeddings, an assumption deeply rooted in current practice but rarely questioned.
By Shuyang Xiang, Hao Guan
arXiv:2606. 15963v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated fine-tuning of large language models using parameter-efficient methods such as LoRA enables privacy-preserving adaptation of foundation models.
By Muhammad Waseem, Nurbek Tastan, Andrej Jovanovic, Nicholas D. Lane, Nils Lukas, Karthik Nandakumar, Samuel Horvath
arXiv:2607. 08605v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have emerged as a promising technique for mechanistic interpretability by learning a set of sparse latent features in large models, each of which encodes a distinct concept.
By Weiduo Liao, Yunqiao Yang, Ying Wei