arXiv:2608.30386v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Hybrid linear-attention architectures have recently scaled to large open-weight models, offering quality competitive with full attention while substa...
By Yanqi Yu, Pingwei Sun, Jianchao Tan, Tao Zhang, Yuchen Xie, Xunliang Cai, Yao Liu
TreeWY introduces a speculative verification method for Gated DeltaNet (GDN) hybrid models that eliminates the need for per-draft-state snapshots. By applying a tree‑structured WY transform to the gated delta rule, each draft node’s output is computed with a single triangular solve, and only the accepted state is reconstructed on commit. Benchmarks on Qwen3.5 35B and 397B show reduced memory pressure, higher throughput, and lower time‑to‑first‑token in memory‑bound scenarios, while enabling wider, higher‑acceptance draft trees.
By Sneha Murthy Ghantasala
The paper introduces Archer, a training‑free caching method that enables efficient rollback in diffusion language models by reusing cached hidden states within a bounded neighborhood. Archer recomputes mutable responses at each update while reusing prompt key/value pairs, thereby amortizing prompt computation without limiting rollback capability. Experiments on code‑generation and non‑code benchmarks show significant speedups—up to 4.33× over LLaDA‑Confidence—while maintaining or improving accuracy.
By Xuning He, Qingyuan Shi, Zinan Sheng, Yongding Tao, Huanyu Liu, Ge Li, Xue Jiang, Yihong Dong
arXiv:2609.38169v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Linear attention replaces growing KV caches with fixed-size recurrent states, yet these persistent states can become a substantial memory bottleneck...
By Bingchen Yao, Haobo Xu, Haokun Lin, Yichen Wu, Ziyu Guo, Renrui Zhang, Zhichao Lu, Zhenan Sun, Ying Wei
arXiv:2608. 15533v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Linear attention models eliminate the quadratic prefix computation and context-growing KV cache of softmax attention by replacing pairwise token interactions with recurrent state updates.
By Junqing Lin, Jingwei Sun, Guangzhong Sun
The paper introduces DAMP, a decay‑aware mixed‑precision quantization scheme for recurrent‑state representations in GDN and KDA language models. By identifying high‑risk channels through quantization‑error energy and decay persistence, DAMP stores these channels at higher precision while compressing the rest to INT8, achieving a 9.9‑bit average precision. Experiments on Qwen3.6‑35B and Kimi‑Linear‑48B show a 69.1% reduction in recurrent‑state storage, up to 2.01× faster state‑update kernels, and up to 10.9% lower full‑model TPOT while preserving accuracy close to the FP32 baseline.
By Tao Zhang, Jianchao Tan, Pingwei Sun, Yanqi Yu, Zixu Jiang, Yuchen Xie, Xunliang Cai, Ziqian Zeng
arXiv:2601. 16956v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid growth of Large Transformer-based models, specifically Large Language Models (LLMs), now scaling to trillions of parameters, has necessitated training across thousands of GPUs using complex hybrid parallelism strategies (e.
By Avinash Maurya, M. Mustafa Rafique, Franck Cappello, Bogdan Nicolae
arXiv:2609.33051v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Hybrid-attention models replace most softmax attention layers with linear attention, reducing KV-cache growth and enabling larger decode batches wh...
By Omin Kwon, JoongWon Shin, Minseo Kim, Kurt Keutzer, Sehoon Kim, Jae W. Lee
arXiv:2607. 03876v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the rise of small quantized GGUF-based language models and their increasing use for on-device inference tasks, we have seen the growing need for an approach capable of reliably delivering these models at scale even under severe memory bandwidth constraints such as those imposed by pure CPU implementations.
By Sadra Saremi
arXiv:2606. 18967v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a representative post-training paradigm for LLMs, enabling strong reasoning and agentic capabilities.
By Minseo Kim, Minjae Lee, Seunghyuk Oh, Kevin Galim, Donghoon Kim, Coleman Hooper, Harman Singh, Amir Gholami, Hyung Il Koo, Wonjun Kang
arXiv:2608. 01651v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hybrid-attention large language models combine full attention with recurrent linear attention to reduce long-context inference costs, yet their autoregressive decoding remains memory-bound.
By Li Wang, Yi Su, Xiabao Wu, Chiran You, Yongchao Liu, Zhan Qiu, Juelu Zhang, Jiajun Zheng, Fangxin Liu, Jie Zhang, Chen Tian, Chengying Huan
arXiv:2609.24197v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Speculative decoding losslessly accelerates large language model inference by having a lightweight draft model predict future tokens for verification b...
By Weifan Jiang, Krishna Teja Chitty-Venkata, Megan Flynn, Reed Meyerson, Zhenting Qi, Tianyu Wu, Eldar Kurtic, Minlan Yu, Alexandre Marques