arXiv:2608. 08638v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) now supports interactive assistants, personalized media, and accessibility tools.
By Yuqian Zhang, Yao Shi, Kexin Huang, Botian Jiang, Zhe Xu, Yiwei Zhao, Min Liang, Shuang Chen, Xipeng Qiu
arXiv:2608. 08319v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is central to neuroscience and clinical assessment, but models are commonly developed for individual diseases, populations or imaging protocols.
By Michail Mamalakis, Carmen Jimenez-Mesa, Yonghao Li, Hao Chen, Chao Li, Antonios Mamalakis, John Suckling, Richard Bethlehem, Stephen J. Price, Richard J. Gilbertson, Pietro Lio
arXiv:2608. 00442v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Medical anomaly detection identifies abnormal images and localizes lesions under scarce supervision while generalizing across organs and modalities.
By Yibo Wan, Jinyu Cai, See-kiong Ng
arXiv:2608. 08469v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing streaming multimodal models process observations incrementally but still follow a turn-based prefill-then-decode pattern, making them non-duplex: new observations cannot naturally enter an active generation stream.
By Kaichen Zhang, Wei Huang, Keming Wu, Bo Li, Xiaojuan Qi
arXiv:2608. 08195v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are high-value assets that can be derived through redeployment, fine-tuning, quantization, or further alignment.
By Yutong Wu, Xiaofan Bai, Shixin Li, Pingyi Hu, Ziqi Zhou, Zilong Wang, Xiaojing Ma, Songfeng Lu, Yuhong Li, Jin Xuan, Yi Wang, Dongmei Zhang, Bin Benjamin Zhu
arXiv:2608. 09287v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data-Free Knowledge Distillation (DFKD) transfers knowledge from a pretrained teacher model to a compact student model by synthesizing semantically informative data, eliminating the need for access to the original training dataset.
By Xuewan He, Tong Chu, Zihan Cheng, Yuchen Su, Qianxin Xia, Guoming Lu, Jielei Wang, Wen Li
arXiv:2608. 09447v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) aligns a student with a teacher on trajectories sampled from the student itself, reducing the train-test state mismatch of offline distillation.
By Zehao Chen, Gongxun Li, Tianxiang Ai, Yifei Li, Zixuan Huang, Wang Zhou, Tao Huang, Fuzhen Zhuang, Xianglong Liu, Jianxin Li, Deqing Wang, Yikun Ban
arXiv:2608. 08569v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advancements in Speech Large Language Models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in understanding complex audio tasks.
By Wenxu Jia, Dongjie Fu, Xize Cheng, Fangming Feng, Linjun Li, Wenshi Chen, Yingming Li, Zhou Zhao, Tao Jin
arXiv:2608. 07734v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated warehouses face a fundamental trade-off between maximizing storage density and achieving high retrieval throughput.
By William Zhang, Tzvika Geft, Jingjin Yu, Kostas Bekris
arXiv:2512. 09062v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Accurate 3D scene interpretation in active construction sites is essential for progress monitoring, safety assessment, and digital twin development.
By Seongyong Kim, Yong Kwon Cho
arXiv:2608. 09226v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Efficient text-to-image generation requires both reinforcement-learning (RL)-based reward alignment and few-step distillation, yet these procedures are typically performed sequentially, increasing training cost and risking the loss of reward gains during compression.
By Yuhan Li, Fangao Zeng, Sicong Kang, Mengfei Xu, Hao Zhou, Wei Li, Pipei Huang, Bingbing Ni
arXiv:2608. 08624v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Domain generalization (DG) and neural network pruning are conventionally treated as distinct objectives, targeting out-of-distribution (OOD) robustness and model efficiency, respectively.
By Parham Sazdar, Mostafa Tavassolipour, Reshad Hosseini
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. 08188v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training quantization reduces the deployment cost of large language models, yet how severely a quantized model degrades is not determined by bit-width alone.
By Chenxi Zhou, Pengfei Cao, Jinyu Ye, Bohan Yu, Haida Yu, Jiang Li, Jun Zhao, Kang Liu
arXiv:2602. 00488v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Solving large-scale capacitated vehicle routing problems (CVRP) is hindered by the high complexity of classical heuristics and the limited generalization of neural solvers.
By Dongbin Jiao, Zisheng Chen, Xianyi Wang, Jintao Shi, Shengcai Liu, Shi Yan
arXiv:2605. 02404v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Model quantization has become essential for efficient large language model deployment, yet existing approaches present clear trade-offs: methods such as GPTQ and AWQ achieve practical compression but are lossy, while lossless techniques preserve fidelity but lack inference acceleration.
By Michael Helcig, Eldar Kurtic, Dan Alistarh
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. 09119v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Motif 3, a decoder-only Mixture-of-Experts language model with 314 billion total parameters and 13.
By Junghwan Lim, Joon Son Chung, Sungmin Lee, Wai Ting Cheung, Gihun Cho, Minsu Ha, Sangho Kang, Beomgyu Kim, Dongseok Kim, Jangwoong Kim, Taehyun Kim, Taewhan Kim, Jeesoo Lee, Jeongdoo Lee, Junhyeok Lee, Dongpin Oh, Hyeyeon Cho, Dahye Choi, Jaeheui Her, Hanbin Jung, Changjin Kang, Minjae Kim, Youngrok Kim, Hyukjin Kweon, Hongjoo Lee, Yeongjae Park, Bokki Ryu
arXiv:2608. 09580v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (CDSR) aims to alleviate data sparsity by transferring dynamic user interests across related domains.
By Qingtian Bian, Tieying Li, Marcus de Carvalho, Jiaxing Xu, Hui Fang, Yiping Ke
arXiv:2608. 08294v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge distillation trains a smaller student to match the outputs of a larger teacher.
By Abhinand Balachandran, Praveen Prashant