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arXiv AI
Aug 11

Matching Supervision to the Student's Learning Capacity: A Unified Framework for On-Policy Self-Distillation

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 AI
Aug 11

Defending Retrieval-Augmented Intrusion Detection Against Knowledge Poisoning and Prompt Injection

arXiv:2608. 08100v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enables large language models to classify network flows and generate human-readable incident reports by retrieving semantically similar historical traffic from a vector knowledge base.

By Kaysarul Anas Apurba, Md. Hasibul Hasan, Mahedee Zaman Moon, Sk. Md. Mizanur Rahman, Atsuo Inomata
arXiv AI
Aug 11

Coupled Graph--Policy Distillation for Personalized Medication Safety in Older Adults with Multimorbidity

arXiv:2608. 09443v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents can support medication review between clinical visits, but safe choices for older adults with multimorbidity depend on conditions, medications, and geriatric risks that users may omit.

By Zihan Wang, Anglin Liu, Rongyi Wang, Dantong Li, Yi Lu, Siqing Yuan, Hongxia Xu, Zhongtian Long, Jintai Chen
arXiv AI
Aug 11

ScaleSense: Cost-Intelligent Scaling Framework via Learned Resource Estimation in Alibaba AnalyticDB

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 AI
Aug 11

Thought-Level Beam Search for Reasoning

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 AI
Aug 11

Full-bandwidth transformer

arXiv:2608. 08888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive transformers compute along two axes: horizontally across generated tokens, and vertically through model depth.

By Xi Wang, Ziyang Cai, Zheng Zhan, Harry Dong, Ying Fan, Gustavo de Rosa, Tim Pearce, John Langford
arXiv AI
Aug 11

M$^3$Prune: Hierarchical Communication Graph Pruning for Efficient Multi-Modal Multi-Agent Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2511. 19969v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advancements in multi-modal retrieval-augmented generation (mRAG), which enhance multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) with external knowledge, have demonstrated that the collective intelligence of multiple agents can significantly outperform a single model through effective communication.

By Weizi Shao, Taolin Zhang, Zijie Zhou, Chen Chen, Chengyu Wang, Xiaofeng He
arXiv AI
Aug 11

Hybrid Policy Distillation for LLMs

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 AI
Aug 11

Long SKILL Compliance as Logical Reasoning: Closure-Grounded Detection with Scaling-Guided On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2608. 08146v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The increasing complexity of enterprise business scenarios has promoted the widespread adoption of long SKILL documents in agent systems, posing new challenges for compliance detection: large models incur substantial inference costs, while small models may fail to maintain detection accuracy.

By Shuaitao Zhao, Feng Ni, Lichao Ma, Jiaye Lin, Fei Han, Yang Wei, Lu Pan