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
Aug 11

A continually expandable foundation model for brain MRI

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 AI
Aug 11

Targeted Counterfactual Fingerprinting for Black-Box LLM Ownership Verification

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 AI
Aug 11

UniDFKD: A Unified Semantic Prior Framework for Architecture-Agnostic Data-Free Knowledge Distillation

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 AI
Aug 11

WDL-OPD: Weak-Driven On-Policy Distillation via Mixture-Constrained Co-Training

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 AI
Aug 11

RL-Native Distillation: Exploiting Scored Trajectories for Few-Step Image Generation

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 Machine Learning
Aug 11

OD-Gear: Online Decomposition and Group Sampling for Expert-Guided Adversarial Routing in Scalable Capacitated Vehicle Routing

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 Machine Learning
Aug 11

Statistically-Lossless Quantization of Large Language Models

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 AI
Aug 11

Motif 3: Technical Report

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