arXiv Machine Learning

ReLATE: Accelerating Tensor Decomposition via Safe and Efficient Learning of Sparse Encodings

ReLATE is a reinforcement‑learned framework that automatically discovers safe and efficient sparse encodings for tensor decomposition, eliminating the need for expert‑designed formats. It combines model‑free and model‑based learning, elastic training, rule‑driven action masking, and dynamics‑informed filtering to guarantee correct encoding with bounded execution time, even early in training. After offline training, ReLATE deploys the optimal encoding with negligible overhead and achieves up to 2× speedups over the best expert‑designed format, with a geometric‑mean speedup of 1.38–1.41× on diverse real‑world sparse tensors.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

ExFold: Unified Expert Folding for Training-Free MoE Prefill-Decode Acceleration

ExFold is a training‑free expert‑folding framework that jointly accelerates the prefill and decode phases of Mixture‑of‑Experts (MoE) models by projecting the contributions of excluded experts onto a retained expert set using calibrated scalar projectors. It treats both phases as a budgeted output‑approximation problem, achieving token‑level Top‑K folding for prefill and batch‑level expert‑pool folding for decode. Implemented as a plug‑and‑play plugin in vLLM with a lightweight CUDA kernel, ExFold delivers up to 1.41× TTFT and 2.45× TPOT speedups while preserving about 99% of the original model quality.

By Juntong Wu, Yifei Liu, Junyi Chen, Siqi Fan, Chaoran Feng, Minghao Li, Liujie Zhang, Weihang Chen, Li Yuan
arXiv AI
Jun 19

Finetuning Vision-Language-Action Models Requires Fewer Layers Than You Think

arXiv:2606. 20246v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models pre-trained on massive video-robot datasets have revolutionized robotic manipulation, yet their multi-billion parameter architectures impose prohibitive computational burdens during downstream fine-tuning and real-time inference.

By Gia-Binh Nguyen, Trong-Bao Ho, Thien-Loc Ha, Khoa Vo, Philip Lund M{\o}ller, Quang T. Nguyen, Long Dinh, Tuan Dam, Vu Duong, Tung M. Luu, Trung Le, Tran Nguyen Le, Minh Vu, An Thai Le, Ngan Le, Daniel Sonntag, James Zou, Jan Peters, Duy M. H. Nguyen, Ngo Anh Vien
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

C$^3$ache: Accelerating World Action Models with Cross Inference Chunk Cache

arXiv:2606. 08962v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) generalize better than standard Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies to novel motions and environments, because a video-modeling objective lets them learn from abundant unlabeled video rather than scarce labeled robot demonstrations.

By Weisen Zhao, Lam Nguyen, Zhicong Lu, Yuzhang Shang
arXiv AI
Jun 4

L$^3$: Large Lookup Layers

arXiv:2601. 21461v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern sparse language models typically achieve sparsity through Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) layers, which dynamically route tokens to dense MLP "experts.

By Albert Tseng, Christopher De Sa
arXiv AI
Aug 20

Vector Symbolic Policy Gradient

Vector Symbolic Policy Gradient (VSPG) is a discrete-action actor that encodes each action as a unit‑norm hypervector and evaluates it by similarity to the encoded state. Its policy‑gradient update reduces to advantage‑weighted hypervector bundling followed by normalization, enabling the use of standard advantage estimators. The learned action hypervectors act as fixed‑size compressed kernel memories that store advantage‑weighted expansions over visited states, allowing evidence transfer via encoder‑induced similarity and providing a robustness guarantee for greedy action selection under random bit flips.

By Ryozo Masukawa, Sanggeon Yun, SungHeon Jeong, Hyunwoo Oh, Raheeb Hassan, Pietro Mercati, Nathaniel D. Bastian, Mahdi Imani, Mohsen Imani
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 21

IntBMoE: Integrating Block-Level Conditioning into Expert Composition for Full-Participation Mixture-of-Experts

IntBMoE introduces a block‑conditioned mixture‑of‑experts that decouples participation, execution, and materialization by combining dense expert composition with sparse block execution. Each internal layer uses a lightweight hypernetwork to merge all expert bases into a single composed expert, while a router selects only a few blocks per token, keeping compute and memory costs low. Experiments on image classification, language modeling, and sequential recommendation demonstrate consistent performance gains, and the model is deployed in AMap’s generative recommendation system, improving UVCTR by 2.4% in online A/B tests.

By Ran Cheng, Longfei Xu, Zheng Liu, Kaikui Liu, Xiangxiang Chu