Inference efficiency

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

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arXiv AI
Jul 14

Adaptive Model Compression (AMC): Saliency-Driven Resource Allocation for Ultra-Low-Power Transformer Inference

arXiv:2607. 10109v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying large-scale transformer models on resource-constrained edge devices remains a challenge due to the high energy and memory overhead inherent in static inference, which processes simple and complex tokens with uniform intensity.

By Jiayin Hu, Kai Yuan, Vanessa Hu, Xuetao Yin, Jianhua Li, Sean Suchter
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14

Towards Efficient Convolutional Neural Network for Embedded Hardware via Multi-Dimensional Pruning

arXiv:2607. 11473v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we propose TECO, a multi-dimensional pruning framework to collaboratively prune the three dimensions (depth, width, and resolution) of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for better execution efficiency on embedded hardware.

By Hao Kong, Di Liu, Xiangzhong Luo, Shuo Huai, Ravi Subramaniam, Christian Makaya, Qian Lin, Weichen Liu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14

BARD: Bridging AutoRegressive and Diffusion Vision-Language Models Via Highly Efficient Progressive Block Merging and Stage-Wise Distillation

arXiv:2604. 16514v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autoregressive vision-language models (VLMs) deliver strong multimodal capability, but their token-by-token decoding imposes a fundamental inference bottleneck.

By Baoyou Chen, Hanchen Xia, Peng Tu, Haojun Shi, Liwei Zhang, Yuxuan Yao, Weihao Yuan, Siyu Zhu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14

Tokenization vs. Augmentation: A Systematic Study of Writer Variance in IMU-Based Online Handwriting Recognition

arXiv:2603. 16883v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Inertial measurement unit-based online handwriting recognition enables the recognition of input signals collected across different writing surfaces but remains challenged by uneven character distributions and inter-writer variability.

By Jindong Li, Dario Zanca, Vincent Christlein, Tim Hamann, Jens Barth, Peter K\"ampf, Bj\"orn Eskofier
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14

Enhancing Reasoning for Diffusion LLMs via Distribution Matching Policy Optimization

arXiv:2510. 08233v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) are promising alternatives to autoregressive large language models (AR-LLMs), as they potentially allow higher inference throughput.

By Yuchen Zhu, Wei Guo, Jaemoo Choi, Petr Molodyk, Bo Yuan, Molei Tao, Yongxin Chen
arXiv AI
Jul 14

Edge Physical AI Deployment of Vision Transformers on Heterogeneous Edge GPU Targeting Autonomous Vehicles

arXiv:2607. 10942v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Physical AI systems, such as autonomous vehicles and intelligent machines, require transformer-based perception models that satisfy stringent edge latency and energy constraints.

By Ashiyana Abdul Majeed, Mahmoud Meribout, Neethu Joseph, Abel Kidane Haile, Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14

FastTPS: An Optimized Method for LLM Token Phase for AI accelerators

arXiv:2607. 11211v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The popularity of large language models (LLMs) escalates an ongoing demand for effective inference.

By Wenzong Yang, Danyang Zhang, Kun Cao, Tejus Siddagangaiah, Rajeev Patwari, Zhanxing Pu, Siyin Kong, Zijiang Yang, Hao Zhu, Varun Sharma, Yue Gao, Tianping Li, Fan Yang, Jicheng Chen, Yushan Chen, Fennian Zhao, Aaron Ng, Elliott Delaye, Ashish Sirasao, Sudip Nag