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arXiv AI
Jul 3

Purified OPSD: On-Policy Self-Distillation Without Losing How to Think

arXiv:2607. 02234v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) has emerged as a promising paradigm for improving LLM reasoning, where a privileged teacher with access to reference solutions provides token-level supervision on the student's own generated trajectories.

By Zhanming Shen, Jintao Tong, Shaotian Yan, Chen Shen, Hao Chen, Wentao Ye, Xiaomeng Hu, Rui Miao, Haobo Wang, Junbo Zhao, Gang Chen, Jieping Ye
arXiv AI
Jul 3

Low-Latency Task-Oriented Image Transmission with Opportunistic Spectrum Access

arXiv:2607. 01921v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Communication systems designed for reliable data reconstruction, rather than task-oriented communication, typically rely on separate source and channel coding and incur high latency under limited spectrum availability and fading channels.

By Jo\~ao Henrique Inacio de Souza, Mattia Merluzzi, Mateus P. Mota, Beatriz Soret, Petar Popovski
arXiv AI
Jul 3

VisionAId: An Offline-First Multimodal Android Assistant for People with Visual Impairment, Featuring Personalized Object Retrieval

arXiv:2607. 02371v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Over 285 million people worldwide live with a visual impairment, for whom everyday tasks such as avoiding obstacles, locating personal belongings, recognizing familiar faces, or handling cash remain persistent obstacles to personal autonomy.

By Cristian-Gabriel Florea, Stelian Sp\^inu
arXiv AI
Jul 3

Hawk: Harnessing Hardware-Aware Knowledge for High-Performance NPU Kernel Generation

arXiv:2607. 01590v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Developing high-performance kernels for Neural Processing Units (NPUs) is a critical industry bottleneck, requiring developers to manually navigate implicit hardware constraints and strict memory hierarchies.

By Junyi Wen, Ruiyan Zhuang, Yongjia Xu, Pengtu Li, Rui Zou, Hongyi Chen, Chingman Wan, Puxu Yang, Wuhui Chen, Yanlin Wang
arXiv AI
Jul 3

DemoPSD: Disagreement-Modulated Policy Self-Distillation

arXiv:2607. 02502v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) has emerged as a practical method for training large language models (LLMs) to reason, where a single model acts as both the teacher and the student with different levels of information access.

By Yunhe Li, Hao Shi, Wenhao Liu, Mengzhe Ruan, Hanxu Hou, Zhongxiang Dai, Shuang Qiu, Linqi Song
arXiv AI
Jul 3

MultAttnAttrib: Training-Free Multimodal Attribution in Long Document Question Answering

arXiv:2607. 01420v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As grounded QA systems are increasingly deployed in AI assistants, accurately attributing generated answers to evidence is critical for user trust and model safety.

By Dang Quang Thien Tran, Quang V. Dang, Vinamra Tyagi, Sai Soorya Rao Veeravalli, Trang Nguyen, Ryan A. Rossi, Franck Dernoncourt, Nedim Lipka, Koustava Goswami, Samyadeep Basu
arXiv AI
Jul 3

ThreadWeaver: Adaptive Threading for Efficient Parallel Reasoning in Language Models

arXiv:2512. 07843v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Scaling inference-time computation has enabled Large Language Models (LLMs) to achieve strong reasoning performance, but their inherently sequential decoding incurs substantial latency, motivating parallelization of the generation process.

By Long Lian, Sida Wang, Felix Juefei-Xu, Tsu-Jui Fu, Xiuyu Li, Adam Yala, Trevor Darrell, Alane Suhr, Yuandong Tian, Xi Victoria Lin
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 2

ReContext: Recursive Evidence Replay as LLM Harness for Long-Context Reasoning

Understanding and reasoning over long contexts has become a key requirement for deploying large language models (LLMs) in realistic applications. Although recent LLMs support increasingly long context windows, they often fail to use relevant evidence that is already present in the input, revealing a gap between context access and effective context utilization.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 2

Neuron-Aware Data Selection for Annotation-Free LLM Self-Distillation

Post-training large language models (LLMs) without real-world interaction feedback or human-labeled supervision remains challenging, particularly in specialized domains where expert annotations are costly to obtain. Recent annotation-free self-evolution methods address this by using the model's own outputs as supervision signals, constructing a teacher via additional context and aggregating predictions across multiple rollouts through majority voting to produce pseudo-labels.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 2

A Hippocampus for Linear Attention: An Exact Memory for What the Recurrent State Forgets

Linear-attention and state-space language models compress the prefix into a fixed-size recurrent state, yielding O(1) memory at the cost of a lossy exact memory: when many key--value associations compete, earlier facts are overwritten and needle recall degrades. Inspired by Complementary Learning Systems, we give linear attention a hippocampal complement.