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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 Machine Learning
Aug 3

Distilling Knowledge from Large Language Models into Lightweight Reinforcement Learning Agents for Autonomous Cyber Operations

arXiv:2607. 28826v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous Cyber Operations (ACO) are increasingly important for defending enterprise networks as cyber threats continue to evolve in sophistication.

By Konur Tholl, Fran\c{c}ois Rivest, Mariam El Mezouar, Adrian Taylor, Ranwa Al Mallah
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 3

Matterhorn: Masked Time-to-First-Spike Encoding by Reassigning the Silent State for Sparse and Energy-Efficient Spiking Transformers

arXiv:2601. 22876v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Spiking neural networks (SNNs) promise energy-efficient inference for large language models (LLMs), yet most reported savings rely on compute-operation counts that overlook data movement.

By Zhanglu Yan, Kaiwen Tang, Zixuan Zhu, Zhenyu Bai, Qianhui Liu, Yongxin Zhu, Weng-Fai Wong
arXiv AI
Aug 3

RAPiD: Reward-Guided Consistency Distillation of Diffusion Planners for Real-Time Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2602. 07339v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion-based trajectory planners can model multi-modal driving behavior, but their iterative denoising process introduces a latency bottleneck for real-time closed-loop deployment.

By Ruturaj Reddy, Hrishav Bakul Barua, Junn Yong Loo, Thanh Thi Nguyen, Ganesh Krishnasamy
arXiv AI
Aug 3

FBFM: A Training-Free Asynchronous Feedback Mechanism for Flow-Matching in World-Action Models Execution

arXiv:2607. 29235v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Although world-action models (WAMs) enhance long-horizon robot control by predicting visual evolution before acting, long-horizon reliability demands repeated re-grounding in real observations--not recursive rollout.

By Peize Li, Ruimeng Zhang, Ru Zhang, Cong Huang, Kai Chen, Shanghang Zhang
arXiv AI
Aug 3

Predict-then-Diffuse: Adaptive Response Length for Compute-Budgeted Inference in Diffusion LLMs

arXiv:2605. 04215v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion-based Large Language Models (D-LLMs) represent a promising frontier in generative AI, offering fully parallel token generation that can lead to significant throughput advantages and superior GPU utilization over the traditional autoregressive paradigm.

By Michael Rottoli, Subhankar Roy, Stefano Paraboschi
arXiv AI
Aug 3

SAF-OPD: Stable Advantage Fusion for On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2607. 29209v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) broadcasts a single response-level reward to every token, while on-policy distillation (OPD) scores each token against a stronger teacher for a dense advantage but caps performance at teacher quality and discourages exploration beyond it.

By Yifan Ding, Xincheng Wei, Yoshua Y. Li, Ziheng Li, Yuquan Lu, Siyu Zhang, Dongsheng Ma, Rongxiang Weng, Xunliang Cai, Yun Chen
arXiv AI
Aug 3

MOSAIC: Masked Outsourcing of Secure AI Computations

arXiv:2607. 29221v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We address the challenge of securely and efficiently outsourcing AI computations from a trusted but computationally weak client to an untrusted but powerful server, in the setting where the client holds both the input and the model, and the server must learn neither.

By James Hsin-yu Chiang, Sheila Zingg, Kari Kostiainen, Srdjan Capkun