Inference efficiency

Quantization, distillation, pruning and serving work aimed at the same accuracy for less memory, latency and money.

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arXiv AI
1d ago

Step-Level On-Policy Distillation: Interpolating Between On-Policy Distillation and Supervised Fine-Tuning

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 AI
1d ago

MINT: Min-Selection Preference Distillation for Balanced Multi-Objective Alignment

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 AI
1d ago

Static Pruning Across Sparse Retrieval Regimes: What Transfers, What Breaks, and What Still Helps

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 AI
1d ago

ACTS-SQL: Agentic and Critic-Oriented Tree-Structured SQL Correctness with Large Language Models

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 AI
1d ago

SMOPD: Selective Token-Entropy Masking for Dirty-History Multi-Turn On-Policy Self-Distillation

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 AI
1d ago

Efficient Block-Layer Parallel Inference for Vision-Language-Action on Hybrid Architectures

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