arXiv:2608. 08176v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) improves the reasoning abilities of LLMs by internalizing privileged context into model parameters through self-distillation.
By Yongkang Yang, Zhezheng Hao, Hong Zhang, Yi Liu, Xiankun Lin, Wence Ji, Fanjunduo Wei, Jiarui Yu, Qiang Lin, Xiaoyun Liang, Hande Dong
arXiv:2608. 08764v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy self-distillation improves language-model reasoning by querying a teacher on states actually visited by the student.
By Jiaxin Guo, Yanwei Yue, Xuanbo Fan, Chunyu Yang, Yan Zhang
arXiv:2604. 16694v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large reasoning models (LRMs) enhance problem-solving capabilities by generating explicit multi-step chains of thought (CoT) reasoning; however, they incur substantial inference latency and computational overhead.
By Jiayi Tian, Yupeng Su, Ryan Solgi, Souvik Kundu, Zheng Zhang
arXiv:2608. 09433v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In regulated domains such as finance, a model that cannot be explained cannot be deployed, yet many interpretable classifiers defeat their own purpose by producing formulas with dozens of features that no regulator could read.
By Adia Lumadjeng, Ilker Birbil, Erman Acar
arXiv:2608. 09228v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-Policy Self-Distillation (OPSD) is commonly interpreted as the transfer of privileged information: a teacher observes the verified solution to the target problem and supervises the student's trajectory.
By Yuki Ichihara, Naoto Iwase, Mohammad Atif Quamar, Junpei Komiyama
arXiv:2608. 08020v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Test-time compute scaling is a primary driver of performance in large reasoning models (LRMs), but extreme inefficiency bounds current approaches, shifting the critical question from \emph{how much} compute to spend, to \emph{where} to allocate it.
By Lijie Yang, Hongyin Luo, Tri Dao, Ravi Netravali
arXiv:2603. 00040v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Achieving reliable 4-bit attention is a prerequisite for end-to-end FP4 computation on emerging FP4-capable GPUs, yet attention remains the main obstacle due to FP4's tiny dynamic range and attention's heavy-tailed activations.
By Peiyuan Zhang, Matthew Noto, Wenxuan Tan, Chengquan Jiang, Will Lin, Wei Zhou, Hao Zhang
arXiv:2608. 08139v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Establishing the provenance of a language model---including its base checkpoint and possible overlap in training distributions---is a governance challenge that metadata alone cannot resolve.
By Yuqi Wu, Shengming Zhao, Jie Chen
arXiv:2604. 20244v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Knowledge distillation (KD) is a powerful paradigm for compressing large language models (LLMs), whose effectiveness depends on intertwined choices of divergence direction, optimization strategy, and data regime.
By Wenhong Zhu, Ruobing Xie, Rui Wang, Pengfei Liu
arXiv:2511. 20849v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce a new tokenizer for language models that minimizes the average tokens per character, thereby reducing the number of tokens needed to represent text during training and to generate text during inference.
By Dong Dong, Weijie Su
arXiv:2604. 07650v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The rapid growth of the large language model (LLM) ecosystem raises a critical question: are seemingly diverse models truly independent?
By Chenchen Kuai, Jiwan Jiang, Zihao Zhu, Hao Wang, Keshu Wu, Zihao Li, Yunlong Zhang, Chenxi Liu, Zhengzhong Tu, Zhiwen Fan, Yang Zhou
arXiv:2506. 07223v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have substantially improved the planning capabilities of embodied agents, enabling their deployment in dynamic and safety-critical environments.
By Yangqing Zheng, Shunqi Mao, Dingxin Zhang, Weidong Cai
arXiv:2608. 09867v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Leading large language model providers now conceal their models' step-by-step reasoning, or chain-of-thought, to protect intellectual property and limit information leakage.
By Alexander Panfilov, David Schmotz, Ilia Shumailov, Luca Beurer-Kellner, Joachim Schaeffer, Ameya Prabhu, Jonas Geiping, Maksym Andriushchenko
arXiv:2608. 09225v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The key-value (KV) cache is the primary throughput optimization in modern large language model (LLM) inference, enabling prefix reuse across requests.
By Tejasvi C. Addagada
arXiv:2608. 09006v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success across a wide range of tasks.
By Shiwei Gan, Xiao Liu, Yafeng Yin, Zhiwei Jiang, Bowen Guo, Lie Xie, Sanglu Lu, Hongkai Wen
arXiv:2608. 07945v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cloud-native serverless data warehouses achieve fine-grained elasticity by decoupling storage from compute, yet determining the optimal resource allocation for highly heterogeneous ad-hoc queries remains a formidable industrial challenge.
By Yifan Wu, Yuhan Li, Zhenhua Wang, Ke Chen, Lidan Shou, Zonghao Chen, Liang Lin, Huan Li, Gang Chen
arXiv:2603. 27996v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful framework for generative tasks in deep learning.
By Nihal Sanjay Singh, Mazdak Mohseni-Rajaee, Shaila Niazi, Kerem Y. Camsari
arXiv:2607. 28069v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Long-context retrieval and agentic workloads repeatedly reuse the same documents under changing instructions, histories, and document orders.
By Hui Xie, Peng Xiao, Yutong Deng, Shuoran Dou, Jian Yang, Jinyang Guo
arXiv:2510. 19366v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) scales model capacity through sparse activation, and is becoming an important architecture for large language models (LLMs).
By Xinfeng Xia, Xiaofeng Hou, Jiacheng Liu, Wenfeng Wang, Mingxuan Zhang, Peng Tang, Chao Li, Minyi Guo
arXiv:2608. 07532v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern agentic AI systems combine multiple large language model agents with heterogeneous skills, yet most architectures either fix communication in advance or allow full broadcast.
By Mojtaba Eslami