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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
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

STEMMA: An Adversarial Multi-Agent Framework for Evaluating Self-Identity Consistency in LLMs

arXiv:2608. 08164v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Knowledge Distillation is a widely adopted technique in the training and fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) enabling transfer of structured information and functional behavior from a large teacher model to a smaller student model while significantly reducing computational costs.

By Nuthakki Siva Gopala Krishna, Kanishka Jain
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 Machine Learning
Aug 11

NeuralDMD: Interpretable Neural Representation of Dynamics from Sparse and Noisy Measurements

arXiv:2507. 03094v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Many challenges in scientific imaging involve solving ill-posed inverse problems, where the goal is to recover spatio-temporal fields from indirect, noisy, and highly sparse measurements - often without access to ground truth data or reliable simulators.

By Ali SaraerToosi, Renbo Tu, Esther Y. H. Lin, Kamyar Azizzadenesheli, Aviad Levis
arXiv AI
Aug 11

Mismatch Matters: On-Policy Distillation Beyond Token Agreement

arXiv:2608. 09836v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) has emerged as a core component of modern LLM post-training pipelines, yet we reveal a failure mode: degenerate agreement, where students exploit repetitive loops to achieve near-perfect token agreement with the teacher despite globally flawed responses.

By Zichao Yu, Chengzhi Yu, Shengze Xu, Yujin Han, Bingqing Jiang, Xu Wang, Difan Zou