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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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Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 2

DeltaFlow: Noise-Adaptive Bidirectional Gated Delta Networks for Embedded Language Flows

Embedded Language Flows (ELF) rely primarily on full non-causal attention for iterative denoising, repeatedly incurring quadratic sequence-mixing cost at each sampling step. Gated Delta Networks (GDNs) provide an efficient recurrent alternative, but their standard causal formulation cannot directly capture the bidirectional context required by ELF.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 31

Contrastive Reinforced Policy Optimization via Privileged Self-Distillation

arXiv:2607. 28026v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in post-training Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly rely on Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) or On-Policy Self-Distillation (OPSD).

By Xingjian Wu, Junlin Liu, Xingchen Liu, Xuhang Zhu, Jianing Wang, Linsen Guo, Xiaoyu Li, Xuezhi Cao, Xunliang Cai
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 31

A Query-Efficient Stochastic Volume Rendering Framework for Time-Varying Implicit Neural Volumes

arXiv:2607. 28047v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Time-varying implicit neural representations (INRs) provide a compact representation of scientific volumes and, for modalities such as dynamic X-ray computed tomography (CT), are often the only practical way to represent the data.

By Alper Sahistan, Haichao Miao, Zhimin Li, Peer-Timo Bremer, Joshua A Levine, Valerio Pascucci
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 31

Beyond Binary Rewards: A Comparative Study of Reward Design for Reinforcement Unlearning

arXiv:2607. 27968v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine unlearning seeks to selectively remove specific knowledge from trained language models without full retraining, a growing necessity under privacy regulations such as GDPR and the EU AI Act.

By Efstratios Zaradoukas, Davide Gabrielli, Bardh Prenkaj, Gjergji Kasneci
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 31

ECG-InterpBench: Benchmarking the Interpretability of ECG Foundation Models with Matched-Scale Sparse Autoencoders

arXiv:2607. 27404v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing benchmarks for electrocardiogram foundation models primarily evaluate downstream predictive performance, providing limited insight into whether their internal representations can be faithfully decomposed, clinically interpreted, or reproduced across independent analyses.

By Yixuan Duan, Wei Qiu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 31

Memory Efficient Tabular Foundation Models

arXiv:2607. 27546v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tabular Foundation Models, such as TabPFN, have received a large amount of recent attention due to their performance on in-context tabular machine learning tasks, which often exceeds classical baselines.

By Shuting Luo, Monika Mikhail Kanaan, Cameron Gordon, Anna Leontjeva, Simon Lucey
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 31

Continual Learning with Vision-Language Models via Semantic-Geometry Preservation

arXiv:2603. 12055v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Continual learning of pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) is prone to catastrophic forgetting, yet current approaches adapt to new tasks without explicitly preserving the cross-modal semantic geometry inherited from pretraining and previous stages, allowing new-task supervision to induce geometric distortion.

By Chiyuan He, Zihuan Qiu, Fanman Meng, Runtong Zhang, Linfeng Xu, Qingbo Wu, Hongliang Li
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 31

SNAC-Pack 2.0: Scaled-Out Surrogate Neural Architecture Codesign

arXiv:2605. 16138v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Neural architecture search (NAS) is a powerful approach for automating model design, but existing methods often optimize for accuracy alone or rely on proxy metrics such as bit operations (BOPs) that correlate poorly with hardware cost.

By Jason Weitz, Dmitri Demler, Benjamin Hawks, Aaron Wang, Nhan Tran, Javier Duarte