arXiv AI
Sep 28

PTC-Decoder: Towards Intelligent SLMs on Offline Resource-Constrained Edge Devices

The paper introduces PTC-Decoder, a training‑free, plug‑and‑play decoder designed to improve the reliability of small language models (SLMs) on offline, resource‑constrained edge devices such as remote sensing satellites. PTC-Decoder combines a Plan‑to‑Act paradigm that forces the model to invoke a planning tool at the first inference step with a deterministic finite automaton (TC‑Decoder) that imposes token‑level hard constraints on tool names while preserving the model’s reasoning capability. Evaluated on 200 real satellite tasks across seven SLMs, the approach achieves a statistically significant mean overall score gain of +1.21, with the TC‑Decoder component identified as the primary contributor to performance gains.

By Minghui Yu, Ke Mu, Gang Wu