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Quantization, distillation, pruning and serving work aimed at the same accuracy for less memory, latency and money.

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arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 1

FlexViT: A Flexible FPGA-based Accelerator for Edge Vision Transformers

arXiv:2606. 31938v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying Vision Transformer (ViT) models on edge platforms remains challenging due to their high computational demands and the architectural heterogeneity of modern hybrid ViT models, which incorporate both fully connected and convolutional layers.

By Hubert Dymarkowski, Xingjian Fu, Rappy Saha, Jude Haris, Jos\'e Cano
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 1

Sparse POD Mode Selection and Manifold Dimensionality Reduction with Neural Networks

arXiv:2605. 27756v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Linear dimensionality reduction methods such as proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) make high-dimensional data amenable to analysis by identifying the principal components, or modes, that capture the most variance, or energy, in the data and constructing a low-dimensional representation in the subspace they span.

By Tomoki Koike, Prakash Mohan, Marc T. Henry de Frahan, Elizabeth Qian, Julie Bessac
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 1

Collaborative Knowledge Distillation via a Learning-by-Education Node Community

arXiv:2410. 00074v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A novel Learning-by-Education Node Community framework (LENC) for Collaborative Knowledge Distillation (CKD) is presented, which facilitates continual collective learning through effective knowledge exchanges among diverse deployed Deep Neural Network (DNN) peer nodes.

By Anestis Kaimakamidis, Ioannis Mademlis, Ioannis Pitas
arXiv AI
Jul 1

KV-RM: Regularizing KV-Cache Movement for Static-Graph LLM Serving

arXiv:2605. 09735v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Static-graph LLM decoders provide predictable launches, fixed tensor shapes, and low submission overhead, but online decoding exposes highly irregular KV-cache behavior: request lengths differ, EOS events arrive asynchronously, and logical histories fragment over time.

By Zhiqing Zhong, Zhijing Ye, Jian Zhang, Weijian Zheng, Bolun Sun, Xiaodong Yu
arXiv AI
Jul 1

A Scalable Whole-body Motion Transfer via Implicit Kinodynamic Motion Retargeting

arXiv:2509. 15443v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Human-to-humanoid imitation learning presents a promising pathway to address the severe data scarcity bottleneck in robotics by utilizing abundant, large-scale human motion collections.

By Xingyu Chen, Hanyu Wu, Sikai Wu, Mingliang Zhou, Diyun Xiang, Haodong Zhang, Yangchen Zhou, Yukang Gao, Yi Gu, Renjing Xu
arXiv AI
Jul 1

Real-Time Source-Free Object Detection

arXiv:2606. 31834v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-world detectors for autonomous driving, surveillance, and robotics must handle domain-shifts under strict latency and memory constraints, yet existing source-free object detection (SFOD) methods rely on heavyweight architectures that prioritize accuracy alone.

By Sairam VCR, Varun Gopal, Poornima Jain, Vineeth N Balasubramanian, Muhammad Haris Khan
arXiv AI
Jul 1

Token-Sparse Medical Multimodal Reasoning via Dual-Stream Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2606. 31599v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) combining reinforcement learning (RL) ignite remarkable progress in multimodal reasoning, yet still struggle with medical images, which typically exhibit extremely sparse visual evidence to inform clinical decision-making.

By Kaitao Chen, Weiqian Zhao, Jiamin Wu, Qihao Zheng, Shangquan Sun, Chunfeng Song, Xiaosong Wang, Mu Zhou, Mianxin Liu