Inference efficiency

Quantization, distillation, pruning and serving work aimed at the same accuracy for less memory, latency and money.

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arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 22

Vectorizing the Trie: Efficient Constrained Decoding for LLM-based Generative Retrieval on Accelerators

arXiv:2602. 22647v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generative retrieval has emerged as a powerful paradigm for LLM-based recommendation.

By Zhengyang Su, Isay Katsman, Yueqi Wang, Ruining He, Lukasz Heldt, Raghunandan Keshavan, Shao-Chuan Wang, Xinyang Yi, Mingyan Gao, Onkar Dalal, Lichan Hong, Ed Chi, Ningren Han
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 22

QScheduler: Adaptive Gradient Sampling for Zeroth-Order On-Device Training on INT8 NPUs

arXiv:2607. 18802v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Zeroth-Order (ZO) optimization enables On-Device Learning (ODL) on NPU-equipped microcontrollers by estimating gradients through forward passes alone, bypassing the need for backpropagation primitives and reducing memory requirements.

By Victor Felipe Domingues Do Amaral (GeePs), Pierre Demaj (GeePs), Erwan Libessart (GeePs), Laurent Folliot (GeePs), Anthony Kolar (GeePs), Philippe B\'enab\`es (GeePs)
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 22

AdaFlash: Adaptive Speculative Decoding via On-Policy Distilled Diffusion Drafters

arXiv:2607. 19223v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Speculative decoding, in which a lightweight draft model first generates a draft sequence that is then verified in parallel by the target model, has become a prevalent paradigm for accelerating large language model inference.

By Yu-Yang Qian, Hao-Cong Wu, Chen Chen, Jiacheng Sun, Zhenhua Dong, Peng Zhao, Zhi-Hua Zhou
arXiv AI
Jul 22

Trajectory-Aware Clinical Risk Prediction via Severity-Grounded Knowledge Graphs and Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2607. 18270v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Electronic Health Records (EHRs) offer a wealth of clinical data, effectively augmenting a patient's records with heterogeneous external knowledge to predict the patient's clinical risk remains a significant challenge.

By Kyunghoon Jeon, Youmin Ko, Woohwan Jung, Hyunjoon Kim