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arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 15

Realizing Native INT8 Compute for Diffusion Transformers on Consumer GPUs: A Fused INT8 GEMM Kernel for Ideogram 4.0

arXiv:2606. 14598v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training INT8 (W8A8) quantization of diffusion transformers is widely deployed as a speed optimization, yet on consumer Ampere GPUs it is frequently slower than the FP8 and NF4 alternatives it is meant to beat.

By Ali Asaria, Tony Salomone, Deep Gandhi
arXiv AI
Jun 15

X-OPD: Cross-Modal On-Policy Distillation for Capability Alignment in Speech LLMs

arXiv:2603. 24596v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While the shift from cascaded dialogue systems to end-to-end (E2E) speech Large Language Models (LLMs) improves latency and paralinguistic modeling, E2E models often exhibit a significant performance degradation compared to their text-based counterparts.

By Di Cao, Dongjie Fu, Hai Yu, Siqi Zheng, Xu Tan, Tao Jin
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 14

Localizing Credit at the Divergence: Path-Conditioned Self-Distillation for LLM Reasoning

Reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards assigns a single scalar to each rollout, leaving token-level credit assignment underspecified in long reasoning traces. On-policy self-distillation addresses this by letting the same model act as a teacher conditioned on privileged information, producing a dense per-token signal.

arXiv AI
Jun 12

ArogyaSutra: A Multi-Agent Framework for Multimodal Medical Reasoning in Indic Languages

arXiv:2606. 13572v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown promising reasoning capabilities in general domains, yet their performance remains limited in specialized settings such as healthcare, especially in multilingual and low-resource scenarios.

By Tanmoy Kanti Halder, Akash Ghosh, Subhadip Baidya, Arijit Roy, Sriparna Saha
arXiv AI
Jun 12

Versioned Late Materialization for Ultra-Long Sequence Training in Recommendation Systems at Scale

arXiv:2604. 24806v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern Deep Learning Recommendation Models (DLRMs) follow scaling laws with sequence length, driving the frontier toward ultra-long User Interaction History (UIH).

By Liang Guo, Ge Song, Litao Deng, Jianhui Sun, Chufeng Hu, Lu Zhang, Zhen Ma, Shouwei Chen, Weiran Liu, Sarang Masti Sreeshylan, Xiaoxuan Meng, Yanzun Huang
arXiv AI
Jun 12

PolyFlow: Safe and Efficient Polytope-Constrained Flow Matching with Constraint Embedding and Projection-free Update

arXiv:2606. 13400v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While flow-based generative models have demonstrated strong performance across a wide range of domains, deploying them in safety-critical physical systems remains challenging due to strict constraint requirements.

By Jianming Ma, Qiyue Yang, Yang Zhang, Liyun Yan, Zhanxiang Cao, Yazhou Zhang, Yue Gao