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arXiv AI
Jun 3

When Should the Teacher Move? Temporal Coupling and Stability in Self On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2606. 03532v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self on-policy distillation trains a student policy against a teacher derived from its own parameter history, yet the teacher's update schedule -- which governs the \emph{temporal coupling} between teacher and student -- has not been systematically studied as a stability variable.

By Haowei Guo, Baolong Bi, Ruicheng Zhang, Bingqian Sun, Wentao Zhang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 3

Towards Blind Lens Aberration Correction via Large LensLib Pre-training and Discrete Degradation Priors

arXiv:2511. 17126v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Emerging deep-learning-based lens library pre-training (LensLib-PT) pipeline offers a new avenue for blind lens aberration correction by training a universal neural network, demonstrating strong capability in handling diverse unknown optical degradations.

By Xiaolong Qian, Qi Jiang, Yao Gao, Lei Sun, Kailun Yang, Xian Wang, Zhonghua Yi, Wenyong Li, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Luc Van Gool, Kaiwei Wang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 3

Spectral-Progressive Thought Flow for Lightweight Multimodal Reasoning

arXiv:2606. 02842v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal spatial reasoning often relies on long chains of intermediate textual and visual thoughts, where accumulating visual tokens and dense cross-modal attention incur substantial computation and memory overhead.

By Yixian Shen, Zhiheng Yang, Qi Bi, Changshuo Wang, Shuai Wang, Jia-Hong Huang, George Floros, Prayag Tiwari, Anuj Pathania
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 3

MuLoCo: Muon is a practical inner optimizer for DiLoCo

arXiv:2505. 23725v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: DiLoCo is a powerful framework for training large language models (LLMs), enabling larger optimal batch sizes and increased accelerator utilization under networking constraints.

By Benjamin Th\'erien, Xiaolong Huang, Aaron Defazio, Irina Rish, Eugene Belilovsky
arXiv AI
Jun 3

FlashbackCL: Mitigating Temporal Forgetting in Federated Learning

arXiv:2606. 03939v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) of foundation and edge models increasingly targets deployments where client data distributions drift over time, yet existing forgetting-mitigation methods assume each client's distribution is stationary.

By Mubarak A. Ojewale, Adriana E. Chis, Jorge M. Cortes-Mendoza, Bernardo Pulido-Gaytan, Horacio Gonzalez-Velez