arXiv:2608. 14929v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-weight language models are fine-tuned, quantized, pruned, and merged, yet their provenance is often undocumented.
By Aman Singh Thakur, Rayan Khoury
arXiv:2608. 14694v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation models are emerging as a transformative paradigm for AI-native sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks by enabling scalable, transferable, and data-efficient intelligence across diverse communication tasks.
By Naveed Khan, Besan Al Sbeihi, Maryam Alshehhi, Nasir Saeed
arXiv:2608. 16354v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Driving video generation models support autonomous-driving development by predicting controllable future scenes for simulation, planning evaluation, and offline data generation.
By Jianchun Yang, Jian Liang, Xianda Guo, Pinhan Fu, Yanlun Peng, Conglang Zhang, Wenke Huang, Mang Ye
arXiv:2608. 14563v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Forward-Pass-Only MLP training (FPO) adapts large language models without a backward pass through the model body, achieving 2.
By Rivaan Patil, Simon Dennis, Hao Guo, Kevin Shabahang
arXiv:2608. 14586v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are becoming a promising paradigm for autonomous driving, but their deployment on existing vehicle platforms remains difficult because they introduce both high inference latency and strong GPU-side resource pressure.
By Haibo HU, Lianming Huang, Qiao Li, Nan Guan, Chun Jason Xue
arXiv:2608. 14922v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mechanistic interpretability has recently expanded to Vision Transformers (ViTs), with Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) increasingly used as post-hoc tools to decompose internal representations into sparse and more interpretable features.
By Philip H. Lee, Parth Padalkar
arXiv:2608. 15636v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in the field of embodied AI, but their high computational cost and limited predicted action length hinder real-time deployment.
By Chunyu Qi, Zhuoran Song, Jian Weng, Haozhe Jiang, Xueyuan Liu, Naifeng Jing, Guanghui He, Xiaoyao Liang, Haibing Guan
arXiv:2608. 16353v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Even well-aligned large language models confidently generate factually incorrect text, making hallucination a persistent reliability risk in high-stakes deployments.
By Zhihao Guo, Zonghan Wu, Huan Huo, DaYong Ye, Junwei Zhang, Weiran Yao, Zhiwei Liu, Qingsong Wen, Yilei Shao
arXiv:2608. 16760v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable optimization is central to neural network (NN) training, yet Adam, the default optimizer for modern LLMs, rests on a fragile foundation.
By Yushun Zhang
arXiv:2608. 15533v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Linear attention models eliminate the quadratic prefix computation and context-growing KV cache of softmax attention by replacing pairwise token interactions with recurrent state updates.
By Junqing Lin, Jingwei Sun, Guangzhong Sun
arXiv:2608. 15306v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-throughput single-cell and spatial transcriptomic technologies provide high-resolution snapshots of heterogeneous cellular states, but their destructive nature prevents repeated measurements of the same cells over time.
By Mary Chriselda Antony Oliver, Kaitlyn Hohmeier, Tuyen Tran, Alejandra Castillo, Caroline Moosm\"uller, Shiying Li
arXiv:2608. 15215v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Token-level knowledge distillation (KD) matches two conditional distributions per position, yet the standard objectives compare them pointwise: a Kullback-Leibler gradient is blind to which wrong token receives probability mass.
By Gordei Verbii, Juho Lee
arXiv:2608. 14658v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce pico-type, a byte-level multi-head content classifier with approximately 1.
By Gautam Kishore
arXiv:2608. 16010v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model compression is critical for deploying networks on resource-constrained edge devices.
By Zhaocen Liu, Satvik Praveen, Yi Sheng
arXiv:2509. 10691v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Decentralized federated learning enables collaborative model training without a central server, but shared model updates can still leak sensitive information through inversion, reconstruction, and membership inference attacks.
By Fardin Jalil Piran, Zhiling Chen, Yang Zhang, Qianyu Zhou, Jiong Tang, Farhad Imani
arXiv:2608. 14614v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As AI datacenters retire functional GPUs, vast quantities of still capable accelerators enter secondary markets.
By Zeyu Cao, Xuan Guo, Cheng Zhang, Cheuk Hang Lau, Ilia Shumailov, Yiren Zhao
arXiv:2608. 16797v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Industrial recommenders rely on two model families that have evolved largely independently: feature-interaction models over multi-field user/item features, and sequential models over user-behavior histories.
By Rongcheng Lin, Yan Sun, Jamey Zhang, Guanglei Xiong, Ivan Ji, Xianjie Chen, Shujian Bu
arXiv:2608. 16316v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) for video reasoning have long been hindered by the high computational cost of processing vast amounts of visual information.
By Ao Shen, Yongheng Zhang, Yinghui Li, Manning Wang, Di Yin, Xing Sun
arXiv:2608. 15475v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantized Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models expose a weight-fault surface: Rowhammer-style faults can corrupt deployed INT8 bits.
By Yudong Gao, Linghan Chen, Wenhan Wu, Mia Zhou, Jiyao Wang, Kaiyan Ji, Mingyu Guo, Honglong Chen
arXiv:2608. 15454v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Byte-level hierarchical language models (LMs) have recently emerged as a robust alternative to their popular counterparts that use subword tokenization.
By Abraham Toluwase Owodunni, Chibuzor Okocha, Christan Grant, Tomasz Limisiewicz, Sachin Kumar