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 9

ZipDepth: Bringing Lightweight Zero-Shot Monocular Depth Anywhere, on Any Device

Monocular depth estimation has seen remarkable progress through foundation models achieving robust zero-shot generalization, yet their computational demands place them far beyond the reach of embedded and mobile platforms. Lightweight alternatives exist, but have been developed almost exclusively within single-domain, self-supervised paradigms, failing silently under domain shift.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 9

Cross-seed explainability using Procrustes-conditioned Joint End-to-end Top-K Sparse Autoencoders

We present a Procrustes-conditioned Joint End-to-end Top-K Sparse Autoencoder (SAE) for extracting cross-seed universal features from independently trained BERT models. Cross-seed feature universality is a fundamental challenge in mechanistic interpretability: because dictionary learning is non-convex, independently trained networks learn misaligned feature spaces, so apparently identical features may differ by random initialization.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 9

FPGN: Redefining Ultra-Fast Programmable Gate-based Neural Acceleration with Differentiable LUTs

Achieving nanosecond-scale inference latency for deep neural networks (DNNs) has become a primary architectural concern for latency-critical applications. While Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) offer a promising substrate for low-latency inference, conventional FPGA accelerators remain arithmetic-centric, using LUTs primarily as building blocks for numerical operators and peripheral logic.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 9

FedOPAL: One-Shot Federated Learning via Analytic Visual Prompt Tuning

With the widespread deployment of basic models in edge intelligence, communication bandwidth has become a core bottleneck restricting the scalability of federated learning. Although one-shot federated learning alleviates this problem by minimizing communication rounds, existing iterative fine-tuning or knowledge distillation methods still face challenges such as high server-side computational costs and hyperparameter sensitivity.

arXiv AI
Jul 9

Breaking Database Lock-in: Agentic Regeneration of High Performance Storage Readers for Database Bypass

arXiv:2607. 07696v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Analytical workloads operating on data stored in external database systems face a fundamental bottleneck: data access is guarded entirely by the database driver, like JDBC or ODBC, forcing all reads through query execution and other driver layers that are not designed for bulk columnar analytics.

By Victor Giannakouris, Immanuel Trummer