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

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arXiv AI
Jun 2

Rethinking the Role of Temperature in Large Language Model Distillation

arXiv:2606. 00306v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reverse Kullback-Leibler (RKL) divergence is widely favored over forward KL (FKL) in large language models (LLM) distillation, yet this preference is largely based on comparisons that omit the temperature $\tau$, overlooking its central role in softening teacher distributions and improving knowledge transfer.

By Hoang-Chau Luong, Lingwei Chen
arXiv AI
Jun 2

SimSD: Simple Speculative Decoding in Diffusion Language Models

arXiv:2606. 02544v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) have recently emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive (AR) LLMs, offering faster inference through parallel or blockwise decoding.

By Junxia Cui, Haotian Ye, Runchu Tian, Hongcan Guo, Jinya Jiang, Haoru Li, Chaojie Ren, Yiming Huang, Kaijie Zhu, Zhongkai Yu, Kun Zhou, Jingbo Shang
arXiv AI
Jun 2

UF-AMA: A unified framework for cross-domain emotion recognition via adaptive multimodal alignment

arXiv:2606. 00170v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In recent years, emotion recognition based on physiological signals such as electroencephalogram (EEG) has gained considerable attention, as internal physiological data offer greater objectivity and reliability compared to external behavioral data like facial expressions.

By Zheng Wang, Shuo Wang, Junhong Wang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

Trust Region On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2606. 01249v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-Policy Distillation (OPD) is a fundamental technique for efficient post-training of large language models (LLMs), with broad applications in agent learning, multi-task enhancement, and model compression.

By Xingrun Xing, Haoqing Wang, Boyan Gao, Ziheng Li, Yehui Tang
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Consistency Deep Equilibrium Models

arXiv:2602. 03024v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep Equilibrium Models (DEQs) have emerged as a powerful paradigm in deep learning, offering the ability to model infinite-depth networks with constant memory usage.

By Junchao Lin, Zenan Ling, Jingwen Xu, Robert C. Qiu