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arXiv AI
Jul 9

TriRoute: Unified Learned Routing for Joint Adaptive Attention, Experts, and KV-Cache Allocation

arXiv:2607. 06601v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conditional computation can decouple language model quality from per-token inference cost, yet leading techniques act on a single axis in isolation: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) sparsifies the FFN, Mixture-of-Depths (MoD) skips whole transformer blocks, and KV-cache quantization compresses attention memory.

By Andrii Balashov, Olena Ponomarova
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 9

Structured Pruning of Large Language Models via Power Transformation and Sign-Preserving Score Aggregation with Adaptive Feature Retention

This paper proposes an improved structured pruning method for large language models (LLMs) that addresses key challenges in adapting Adaptive Feature Retention (AFR), an unstructured pruning technique, to structured pruning. When applying AFR to structured pruning, three major problems arise: distribution mismatch between heterogeneous pruning scores, loss of sign information indicating optimization direction consistency, and influence of outliers.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 8

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

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. We present Jailbreak, an approach that bypasses the database engine entirely by reading storage files directly and materializing data as in-memory columnar buffers.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 8

Trustworthy Machine Learning through the Lens of Combinatorial Optimization: Survey and Research Perspectives

Modern machine learning (ML) increasingly relies on complex models whose behavior is difficult to characterize beyond empirical performance metrics. Across a wide range of tasks, including prediction, generation, and decision-making, models with similar empirical performance can exhibit markedly different properties in terms of their transparency, interpretability, robustness, fairness, privacy, and certifiability.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 8

Joint Energy Management and Coordinated AIGC Workload Scheduling for Distributed Data Centers: A Diffusion-Aided Reward Shaping Approach

arXiv:2605. 02965v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Artificial intelligence-generated content (AIGC) has emerged as a transformative paradigm for automating the creation of diverse and customized content, giving rise to rapidly growing computational workloads in cloud data centers.

By Yang Fu, Peng Qin, Liming Chen, Zihao Zhang, Hao Yu, Yifei Wang
arXiv AI
Jul 8

Contrastive Predictive Coding with Compression for Enhanced Channel State Feedback in Wireless Networks

arXiv:2607. 05419v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate and timely channel state information (CSI) is essential for next-generation wireless systems, yet existing works treat CSI compression and CSI prediction as separate problems, both in academia and in current 3GPP studies.

By Ahmed Y. Radwan, Hina Tabassum, Fahad Syed Muhammad, Matthew Baker
arXiv AI
Jul 8

DT-Guard: Intent-Driven Reasoning-Active Training for Reasoning-Free LLM Safety Guardrail

arXiv:2607. 06326v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models deployed in open-world applications require safety guardrails that are both robust to complex risks and efficient enough for low-latency runtime moderation.

By He Liu, Changtao Miao, Xinjie Yang, Tianle Song, Yin Wu, Junchi Chen, Bintao He, Xinyuan Zhang, Bo Zhang, Shi Yan, Wei Lu, Wei Wang, Danyang Xu, Jiansheng Cai, Zhe Li
arXiv AI
Jul 8

RSF-GLLM: Bridging the Semantic Gap in Multi-Hop Knowledge Graph QA via Recurrent Soft-Flow and Decoupled LLM Generation

arXiv:2607. 06527v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-hop Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs faces a critical challenge: traditional retrieve-then-read pipelines break differentiability, preventing the retriever from learning to bridge the semantic gap where intermediate nodes lack lexical overlap with the query.

By Sambaran Bandyopadhyay, Ananth Muppidi