arXiv:2608. 07609v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-throughput screening (HTS) assays are central to early-stage drug discovery but are often limited by extreme data sparsity, as primary screens typically use only a single replicate per test substance.
By Xiaohua Douglas Zhang
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. 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: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: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:2608. 07814v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language models deliver high capacity at low per-token compute, but deploying them cheaply requires compressing their many expert weight matrices.
By Inesh Chakrabarti, Sourjya Roy, Bowen Bao, Thiago Crepaldi, Spandan Tiwari, Ashish Sirasao
arXiv:2608. 08794v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Omni-modal LLMs jointly process audio, video, and text, but long multimodal sequences incur substantial prefill and KV-cache costs.
By Kyeongyoon Lee, Hongyeob Kim, Youngeun Kim, Sungeun Hong
arXiv:2608. 08138v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent data protection laws have accelerated the adoption of Federated Learning (FL) for privacy-preserving decentralized training.
By Matteo Caligiuri, Francesco Barbato, Pietro Zanuttigh, Francesco Restuccia
arXiv:2608. 08382v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As LLM inference shifts to multi-tenant GPU clusters, co-batching improves throughput but obscures per-tenant usage and limits control.
By Shuowei Jin, Xueshen Liu, Jiaxin Shan, Le Xu, Tieying Zhang, Liguang Xie, Z. Morley Mao
arXiv:2608. 09130v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Allocating limited computation among concurrent learning tasks is difficult when each task must reach a target loss before a deadline but its required training effort is unknown.
By Hanye Zhao, Muning Wen, Yong Yu, Weinan Zhang
arXiv:2608. 09460v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cardiac digital twin research is moving from subject-specific anatomical replicas toward virtual cohorts that represent clinically relevant population subgroups.
By Konstantinos Kevopoulos, Beatrice Moscoloni, Benjamin Alheit, Cameron Beeche, Julio A. Chirinos, Alexander Heinlein, Mathias Peirlinck
arXiv:2605. 18662v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Noise-tolerant PAC learning of linear models has been of central interests in machine learning community since the last century.
By Rita Adhikari, Shiwei Zeng
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:2608. 07557v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV-VLN) requires rapid and reactive control in complex 3D environments.
By Peng Xu, Chengcheng Wang, Shaohua Wan
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. 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
arXiv:2608. 06564v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Quantization is how large language models are actually deployed, and below four bits it hurts.
By Zekun Wu, Swati Dhiman, Adriano Koshiyama
arXiv:2608. 08878v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) achieve strong performance across many tasks, but their Key-Value (KV) cache grows linearly with sequence length, creating a severe memory bottleneck for long-context inference.
By Asaad Althoubi
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