arXiv:2608. 15454v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Byte-level hierarchical language models (LMs) have recently emerged as a robust alternative to their popular counterparts that use subword tokenization.
By Abraham Toluwase Owodunni, Chibuzor Okocha, Christan Grant, Tomasz Limisiewicz, Sachin Kumar
arXiv:2608. 14614v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As AI datacenters retire functional GPUs, vast quantities of still capable accelerators enter secondary markets.
By Zeyu Cao, Xuan Guo, Cheng Zhang, Cheuk Hang Lau, Ilia Shumailov, Yiren Zhao
arXiv:2603. 02830v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Predicting future student responses to questions is particularly valuable for educational learning platforms where it enables effective interventions.
By Prarthana Bhattacharyya, Joshua Mitton, Ralph Abboud, Simon Woodhead
arXiv:2608. 15632v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural representations have become a central tool for studying the internal mechanisms of modern AI models, yet their complex high-dimensional structure makes them difficult to interpret.
By Yehonatan Avidan, Daniel D. Lee, Haim Sompolinsky
arXiv:2608. 15975v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Labeling large text corpora with LLM teachers has become a practical route to training data at scale.
By Ravi Satya Durga Prasad Yenugula
arXiv:2608. 16333v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) aligns a student model with a teacher's logit distribution on student-generated trajectories.
By Changhui Sun, Lanbo Liu, Hang Lei, Tong Ling, Jiahang Xie, Zhiyong Zheng, Yujia Wang, Hao Liu, Feng Xiao, Lu Liu, Yanlong Du, Zifeng Cheng, Ziwei Jiang, Qing Gu
arXiv:2608. 14624v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent LLM systems have emerged as an important deployment paradigm for AI services, where each user request is decomposed into a sequence of specialized agents.
By Rui Zhang, Chaeeun Kim, Shaoting Feng, Kuntai Du, Yuhan Liu, Yi Zhong, Cheng-Wei Ching, Junchen Jiang, Liting Hu
arXiv:2608. 14712v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Each row of a transformer's attention matrix is a probability distribution over tokens, and in trained models most of that probability lands on a single \emph{sink} token, usually the first.
By Marios Papamichalis, Regina Ruane
arXiv:2608. 15062v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scaling transformer language models creates an inherent tension between expressivity and memory efficiency.
By Amr Hegazy, Amr Alanwar, Mostafa Elhoushi
arXiv:2608. 15660v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated learning (FL) enables privacy-preserving distributed model training but faces challenges from heterogeneous model architectures and limited communication resources at the network edge.
By Chenwang Liu, Yijun Liu, Chang Liu, Xu Zhang, Pengchao Han
arXiv:2608. 15117v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Analytical models of peak VRAM consumption for LLM inference decompose memory into weight-storage, KV-cache, and activation terms parameterized by step count, tool invocations, and context expansion.
By Anubhab Banerjee
arXiv:2608. 16612v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: An accurate estimation of the state of health (SOH) underpins a safe and optimized use of the battery system.
By Jiaqi Yao, Julia Kowal
arXiv:2608. 14828v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aligning a language agent to several objectives at once is a persistent failure mode of preference-based training: when objectives are combined additively, optimization collapses onto whichever is cheapest to improve and sacrifices the rest, so a support agent learns to sound warm while giving no real help.
By Tony Tu, Sayan Chakraborty, Ruomeng Xu, Tony Qin, Austin Tian
arXiv:2608. 14945v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) gives language agents dense token-level supervision from a privileged self-teacher on the policy's own trajectories.
By Qizhen Lan, Xi Xiao, Xiangchen Guan, Mengchen Fan, Moule Lin, Jung Im Choi, Lijing Zhu
arXiv:2608. 15919v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation over knowledge graphs (Graph-RAG) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for grounding large language models in domain-specific corpora.
By Nicola Cogotti
arXiv:2608. 16309v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Static pruning is widely used to accelerate sparse neural retrieval, yet existing studies each validate their conclusions within a single custom pipeline, leaving it unclear which findings transfer to modern engines with different index organizations and dynamic pruning mechanisms.
By Zirui Song, Yuye Zhu, Yang Yang
arXiv:2608. 15145v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have been increasingly adopted in Text-to-SQL systems, yet SQL errors remain a major obstacle in real-world Text-to-SQL inference pipelines.
By Xinmei Huang, Jie Song, Peng Li, Fuxin Jiang, Jing Zhang, Tieying Zhang, Jianjun Chen, Chenming Liu, Tao Yang, Maoyin Liu, Wenda Li, Hong Chen, Cuiping Li
arXiv:2608. 15592v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Efficient LLM serving is often bottlenecked by the need to pad sequences to a fixed maximum length, and this wastes compute and degrades throughput.
By Feiyang Ren, Shengtao Wen, Lingbing Guo, Yu Tian, Yuanning Cui, Xiang Chen
arXiv:2608. 14647v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dirty-history rollouts make multi-turn on-policy self-distillation (OPSD) brittle: once a student emits an erroneous intermediate reply, later turns are conditioned on that reply, and uniform distillation can spend loss on tokens that carry little corrective signal.
By Chenyang Jiang, Changhan Huang
arXiv:2608. 14586v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are becoming a promising paradigm for autonomous driving, but their deployment on existing vehicle platforms remains difficult because they introduce both high inference latency and strong GPU-side resource pressure.
By Haibo HU, Lianming Huang, Qiao Li, Nan Guan, Chun Jason Xue