arXiv:2602. 03120v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Post-Training Quantization (PTQ) is essential for deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) on memory-constrained devices, yet it renders models static and difficult to fine-tune.
By Yinggan Xu, Kajetan Schweighofer, Risto Miikkulainen, Xin Qiu
arXiv:2607. 11505v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Post-training is essential for refining the domain-specific capabilities of large language models (LLMs), yet existing reward optimization and distribution matching methods tightly couple policy exploration with distribution alignment.
By Daocheng Fu, Rong Wu, Yu Yang, Xuemeng Yang, Jianbiao Mei, Licheng Wen, Pinlong Cai, Yong Liu, Botian Shi, Yu Qiao
arXiv:2606. 04063v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying large language models (LLMs) is challenging due to their significant memory and computational requirements.
By Hoang-Loc La, Truong-Thanh Le, Amir Taherkordi, Phuong Hoai Ha
arXiv:2608. 06916v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantized Neural Networks~(QNN) with low-bitwidth data have proven promising in efficient storage and computation on edge devices.
By Zijun Jiang, Yangdi Lyu
arXiv:2509. 23982v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Preference alignment is a critical step in making Large Language Models (LLMs) useful and aligned with (human) preferences.
By Lucio La Cava, Andrea Tagarelli
GAMMA is a post‑training framework that learns module‑wise precision preferences for mixed‑precision quantization of large language models. It optimizes a teacher‑forced hidden‑state reconstruction objective under an augmented Lagrangian constraint and then projects the learned preferences into exact budget‑feasible discrete assignments via integer programming. Because the learned preferences encode a stable sensitivity ranking, a single training run can be reused for any deployment budget, reducing per‑budget adaptation from hours to minutes and outperforming fixed‑precision baselines and search‑based methods on Llama and Qwen models.
By Zhangyang Yao, Haiyan Zhao, Haoyu Wang, Xu Han
The paper introduces Ban&Pick, a post‑training, plug‑and‑play routing strategy for Sparse Mixture‑of‑Experts large language models. It identifies and reinforces a small group of highly influential experts while dynamically pruning redundant ones, leading to accuracy gains across math, code, and reasoning benchmarks. Experiments on DeepSeek and Qwen3 show notable performance improvements and a 1.25× inference speedup without retraining or architectural changes.
By Yuanteng Chen, Peisong Wang, Yuantian Shao, Nanxin Zeng, Chang Xu, Jian Cheng
ONNX-Net introduces a universal representation for neural architectures using natural language descriptions, enabling instant performance prediction across diverse search spaces. The authors present ONNX-Bench, a benchmark of over 600k architecture–accuracy pairs compiled from open‑source NAS‑bench networks in ONNX format. Experiments demonstrate strong zero‑shot predictive performance with minimal pretraining, overcoming the limitations of cell‑based, graph‑encoded approaches.
By Shiwen Qin, Alexander Auras, Shay B. Cohen, Elliot J. Crowley, Michael Moeller, Linus Ericsson, Jovita Lukasik
arXiv:2604. 26170v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Adapting large language models (LLMs) to a targeted task efficiently and effectively remains a fundamental challenge.
By Ting-Wei Li, Sirui Chen, Jiaru Zou, Yingbing Huang, Tianxin Wei, Jingrui He, Hanghang Tong
arXiv:2608. 07335v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advancements in deep reinforcement learning have increasingly favored simplified, highly parallelized paradigms.
By Taha Shieenavaz, Shabnam Zareshahraki, Loris Nanni
arXiv:2608. 05541v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evolution Strategy (ES) is a promising alternative to gradient-based fine-tuning for resource-constrained Large Language Model (LLM) reasoning.
By Yu Gu, Zhi Zheng, Yunpeng Ba, Xialiang Tong, Mingxuan Yuan, Zhenkun Wang
arXiv:2603. 15106v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Enabling efficient deep neural network (DNN) inference on edge devices with different hardware constraints is a challenging task that typically requires DNN architectures to be specialized for each device separately.
By Mark Deutel, Simon Geis, Axel Plinge