Inference efficiency

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

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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 Machine Learning
Jun 9

BlendServe: Optimizing Offline Inference for Auto-regressive Large Models with Resource-aware Batching

arXiv:2411. 16102v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Offline batch inference, which leverages the flexibility of request batching to achieve higher throughput and lower costs, is becoming more popular for latency-insensitive applications.

By Yilong Zhao, Shuo Yang, Kan Zhu, Lianmin Zheng, Baris Kasikci, Yang Zhou, Jiarong Xing, Ion Stoica
arXiv AI
Jun 9

BRAIN: Bayesian Reasoning via Active Inference for Agentic and Embodied Intelligence in Mobile Networks

arXiv:2602. 14033v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Future sixth-generation (6G) mobile networks will demand artificial intelligence (AI) agents that are not only autonomous and efficient, but also capable of real-time adaptation in dynamic environments and transparent in their decisionmaking.

By Osman Tugay Basaran, Martin Maier, Falko Dressler
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 Machine Learning
Jun 9

PBSD: Privileged Bayesian Self-Distillation for Long-Horizon Credit Assignment

arXiv:2606. 09348v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon agentic tasks pose a fundamental credit assignment challenge for outcome-base reinforcement learning: trajectory-level rewards verify final correctness but provide limited guidance on which intermediate reasoning steps or tool interactions contribute to the outcome.

By Yang Tian, Rui Wang, Xumeng Wen, Junjie Li, Shizhao Sun, Lei Song, Jiang Bian, Bo Zhao
arXiv AI
Jun 9

AliyunConsoleAgent: Training Web Agents in Real-World Cloud Environments via Distillation and Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2606. 09447v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present AliyunConsoleAgent, a web agent framework for automated documentation verification in real-world cloud consoles.

By Bojie Rong, Zheyu Shen, Qiaoping Wang, Pengfei Kang, Yang Xu, Yawen Wei, Hanyu Wu, Zhi Zhao, Leihao Pei, Linquan Jiang