arXiv Machine Learning By Mihail Stoian, Mark Gerarts, Pascal Ginter, Andreas Zimmerer, Jan Van den Bussche, Andreas Kipf

MLSkip: Data Skipping for ML Filters via Lightweight Metadata

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arXiv:2606. 03946v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Database vendors recently released AI functions that can be used in filter predicates.

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arXiv AI
Aug 18

Static Pruning Across Sparse Retrieval Regimes: What Transfers, What Breaks, and What Still Helps

arXiv:2608. 16309v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Static pruning is widely used to accelerate sparse neural retrieval, yet existing studies each validate their conclusions within a single custom pipeline, leaving it unclear which findings transfer to modern engines with different index organizations and dynamic pruning mechanisms.

By Zirui Song, Yuye Zhu, Yang Yang
arXiv AI
Aug 25

Revisiting the Effectiveness of LLM Pruning for Test-Time Scaling

The paper revisits the impact of pruning on large language models (LLMs) during test-time scaling (TTS). While prior work found that structured pruning degrades reasoning performance, this study shows that unstructured pruning—removing only specific redundant weights—can actually improve TTS performance on reasoning benchmarks for models s1.1-7B and Qwen3-8B, sometimes surpassing the full-weight models. The authors also examine how different layer-wise sparsity allocation strategies affect these outcomes.

By Ocean Monjur, Shahriar Kabir Nahin, Anshuman Chhabra