Inference efficiency

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
Jul 15

PiVoT: A Variational Solution for Real-time Large-scale Multi-object Detection and Tracking under Heavy Clutter

Multi-object detection and tracking from noisy point clouds remain challenging in many data-scarce radar applications. Current Bayesian trackers based on Poisson measurement models offer a training-free solution but struggle to achieve accuracy and efficiency under severe clutter, large object populations, and full-resolution Doppler point clouds.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 15

Constraint-Driven Model Optimization: An Industry Framework for Selecting Compression and Acceleration Techniques in Modern Machine Learning Systems

The rapid deployment of machine learning systems across cloud, edge, and enterprise environments has brought model optimization to the forefront of systems-engineering. Despite a rich literature spanning quantization, pruning, knowledge distillation, parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT), and inference-time optimization, practitioners are often left navigating these techniques through heuristics rather than principled methodology.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 15

Consensus as Privileged Context for Label-Free Self-Distillation

Sampling multiple solutions and returning the majority answer is among the most reliable ways to improve the reasoning accuracy of large language models without labels, and a growing family of methods converts this consensus signal into training supervision. However, existing approaches use consensus only in restricted forms: as a filter that selects solutions for fine-tuning, as a preference between answers, or as a scalar reward for reinforcement learning, discarding most of the information that the agreeing solutions contain.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 15

ExTernD: Expanded-Rank Ternary Decomposition Ternary LLM PTQ with Accuracy Approaching Any Quantization Level

We introduce ExTernD (Expanded-rank Ternary Decomposition), a post-training factorization of each LLM weight matrix $A \in \mathbb{R}^{m \times n}$ into $A \approx B \mathrm{diag}(D) C$ with ternary factors $B \in \{-1,0,+1\}^{m \times k}$, $C \in \{-1,0,+1\}^{k \times n}$ and a real scale vector $D \in \mathbb{R}^k$. The inner rank $k = μ\min(m,n)$ is deliberately expanded beyond full rank ($μ> 1$), so that components past full rank correct the quantization error of earlier ones.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 15

Graph Regularized PCA

arXiv:2601. 10199v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multivariate data often exhibit complex dependencies that violate the assumption of isotropic residual noise.

By Antonio Briola, Marwin Schmidt, Fabio Caccioli, Carlos Ros Perez, James Singleton, Christian Michler, Tomaso Aste
arXiv AI
Jul 15

Do We Really Need Multimodal Emotion Language Models Larger Than 1B Parameters?

arXiv:2607. 12787v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have significantly improved the performance of multimodal emotion recognition (MER) and enabled interpretable description generation by jointly modeling video, audio, and language, etc.

By Kaiwen Zheng, Junchen Fu, Wenhao Deng, Hu Han, Joemon M. Jose, Xuri Ge
arXiv AI
Jul 15

Hallo4D: Multi-Modal Hallucination Mitigation for Consistent Spatio-Temporal Generation

arXiv:2607. 12752v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While recent advances in 3D generation have enabled impressive visual synthesis, existing methods often rely on 2D diffusion supervision without explicit mechanisms for geometric consistency, leading to spatial hallucinations such as duplicated structures and misaligned geometry.

By Hongbo Wang, Huaibo Huang, Jie Cao, Jin Liu, Haoyang Tong, Ran He
arXiv AI
Jul 15

Navigating the Mirage: A Dual-Path Agentic Framework for Robust Misleading Chart Question Answering

arXiv:2603. 28583v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite the success of Vision-Language Models (VLMs), misleading charts remain a significant challenge due to their deceptive visual structures and distorted data representations.

By Yanjie Zhang, Yafei Li, Rui Sheng, Zixin Chen, Yanna Lin, Huamin Qu, Lei Chen, Yushi Sun