Inference efficiency

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

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arXiv AI
Jun 9

End-to-End Context Compression at Scale

arXiv:2606. 09659v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-context language model inference is bottlenecked by memory, as the KV cache grows with context length.

By Ang Li, Sean McLeish, Haozhe Chen, Nimit Kalra, Zaiqian Chen, Artem Gazizov, Venkata Anoop Suhas Kumar Morisetty, Bhavya Kailkhura, Harshitha Menon, Zhuang Liu, Brian R. Bartoldson, Tom Goldstein, Sanae Lotfi, Micah Goldblum, Pavel Izmailov
arXiv AI
Jun 9

Improving the Performance and Learning Stability of Parallelizable RNNs Designed for Ultra-Low Power Applications

arXiv:2605. 11855v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Sequence learning is dominated by Transformers and parallelizable recurrent neural networks (RNNs) such as state-space models, yet learning long-term dependencies remains challenging, and state-of-the-art designs trade power consumption for performance.

By Julien Brandoit, Arthur Fyon, Damien Ernst, Guillaume Drion
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

Efficient Traffic Prediction at Scale: A Systematic Study of STGCN Architectural Depth

arXiv:2606. 09539v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatio-temporal graph neural networks (STGNNs) have become the dominant approach for traffic prediction, yet their computational requirements pose challenges for practical deployment in intelligent transportation systems (ITS).

By Soban Nasir Lone, Mohamed Abouelela, Taeyoung Yu, Jiwon Kim, Constantinos Antoniou
arXiv AI
Jun 9

Post-Trained MoE Can Skip Half Experts via Self-Distillation

arXiv:2605. 18643v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) scales language models efficiently through sparse expert activation, and its dynamic variant further reduces computation by adjusting the activated experts in an input-dependent manner.

By Xingtai Lv, Li Sheng, Kaiyan Zhang, Yichen You, Siyan Gao, Xueheng Luo, Yuxin Zuo, Yuchen Fan, Junlin Yang, Ganqu Cui, Bingning Wang, Fan Yang, Youbang Sun, Ning Ding, Bowen Zhou
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

A Unified Structured Query Understanding Framework for Industrial Semantic Search

arXiv:2605. 27441v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Query understanding in large-scale industrial search systems is typically implemented as a cascade of disparate, task-specific components.

By Ping Liu, Qianqi Shen, Jianqiang Shen, Chunnan Yao, Kevin Kao, Rajat Arora, Dan Xu, Baofen Zheng, Yunxiang Ren, Benjamin Le, Ali Hooshmand, Igor Lapchuk, Juan Bottaro, Raghavan Muthuregunathan, Caleb Johnson, Liangjie Hong, Jingwei Wu, Wenjing Zhang
arXiv AI
Jun 9

Trajectory-Refined Distillation

arXiv:2606. 08432v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) has become a central post-training tool for large language models (LLMs), providing dense per-token teacher supervision along the student's own rollouts.

By Li Jiang, Haoran Xu, Yichuan Ding, Amy Zhang
arXiv AI
Jun 9

From Rigid to Dynamic: Entropy-Guided Adaptive Inference for Long-Context LLMs

arXiv:2606. 09508v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing sparse attention and KV cache compression methods for long-context LLM inference typically apply fixed sparsity patterns or uniform budgets across all attention heads, overlooking the substantial variation in attention behavior among heads and contexts.

By Zhanchao Xu, Haoyang Li, Qingfa Xiao, Fei Teng, Chen Jason Zhang, Lei Chen, Qing Li
arXiv AI
Jun 9

A Comparative Study of Student Perspectives on Technical Writing Feedback Quality: Evaluating LLMs, SLMs, and Humans in Computer Science Topics

arXiv:2601. 11541v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: To address the scalability of feedback in computer science while mitigating the privacy and cost limitations of commercial Large Language Models (LLMs), this study evaluates a locally hosted Small Language Model (SLM).

By Suqing Liu, Runlong Ye, Christopher Eaton, Bogdan Simion, Michael Liut