Inference efficiency

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

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arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 10

It\^o maps for any-step SDEs

arXiv:2606. 11156v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent one-step generative models accelerate sampling by learning deterministic flow maps of the underlying dynamics.

By Zhengkai Pan, Peter Potaptchik, Wenxi Yao, Michael S. Albergo, Jakiw Pidstrigach
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 10

How Does Reasoning Flow? Tracing Attention-Induced Information Flow for Targeted RL in LLMs

arXiv:2606. 10646v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Token-level credit assignment remains a key obstacle for reinforcement learning (RL) in large language models (LLMs), where RL recipes typically treat all tokens equally, failing to distinguish decisive reasoning steps from routine formatting or fluent filler.

By Zhichen Dong, Yang Li, Yuhan Sun, Weixun Wang, Yijia Luo, Zinian Peng, Taiheng Ye, Chao Yang, Wenbo Su, Yu Cheng, Bo Zheng, Junchi Yan
arXiv AI
Jun 10

Less Context, Better Agents: Efficient Context Engineering for Long-Horizon Tool-Using LLM Agents

arXiv:2606. 10209v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models deployed as autonomous agents for enterprise workflows face a key challenge: verbose tool responses from enterprise systems can cause context overflow, stale-state errors, and high inference cost.

By Abhilasha Lodha, Mahsa Pahlavikhah Varnosfaderani, Abir Chakraborty, Abhinav Mithal
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 10

Express Language Modeling

arXiv:2606. 10944v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce a new tool, Express, for converting a non-causal attention approximation into a causal approximation with matching approximation guarantees.

By Albert Gong, Annabelle Michael Carrell, Raaz Dwivedi, Lester Mackey
arXiv AI
Jun 10

Sigma-Branch: Hierarchical Single-Path Network Reconstruction for Dynamic Inference with Reduced Active Parameters

arXiv:2606. 09924v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying deep neural networks on memory-constrained edge accelerators is bottlenecked by per-inference off-chip weight transfer rather than computation: the dense network cannot be retained on-chip, and every parameter must be loaded for every input.

By Kohga Tanaka, Hiroaki Nishi