arXiv:2604. 20244v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Knowledge distillation (KD) is a powerful paradigm for compressing large language models (LLMs), whose effectiveness depends on intertwined choices of divergence direction, optimization strategy, and data regime.
By Wenhong Zhu, Ruobing Xie, Rui Wang, Pengfei Liu
arXiv:2512. 21002v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Distilling the capabilities from a large reasoning model (LRM) to a smaller student model often involves training on substantial amounts of reasoning data.
By Wei-Rui Chen, Vignesh Kothapalli, Ata Fatahibaarzi, Hejian Sang, Shao Tang, Qingquan Song, Zhipeng Wang, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
arXiv:2510. 22228v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Layer pruning has emerged as a widely adopted technique for improving the efficiency of large language models (LLMs).
By Keyu Wang, Tian Lyu, Guinan Su, Lu Yin, Marco Canini, Jonas Geiping, Shiwei Liu
arXiv:2608. 02975v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in MQM-based translation quality (TQ) evaluation, and recent advances in large reasoning models (LRMs) promise even greater improvements.
By Bhavin Jawade, Cameron R. Wolfe
arXiv:2605. 28207v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) is now the dominant architecture for frontier language models, yet it requires all expert parameters to be loaded in memory, making it less preferable for memory-constrained deployment.
By Junhyuck Kim, Jihun Yun, Haechan Kim, Gyeongman Kim, Joonghyun Bae, Jaewoong Cho
arXiv:2509. 25837v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) deliver remarkable performance but are costly to deploy, motivating knowledge distillation (KD) for efficient inference.
By Yeongmin Kim, Donghyeok Shin, Mina Kang, Byeonghu Na, Il-Chul Moon