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

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

HiGR: Industrial-Scale Hierarchical Generative Slate Recommendation Framework in Tencent

arXiv:2512. 24787v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Slate recommendation, which presents users with a ranked item list in a single display, is ubiquitous across mainstream online platforms.

By Yunsheng Pang, Zijian Liu, Yudong Li, Shaojie Zhu, Zijian Luo, Chenyun Yu, Sikai Wu, Shichen Shen, Cong Xu, Bin Wang, Kai Jiang, Chengxiang Zhuo, Zang Li
arXiv AI
Jun 10

Whisfusion: Parallel ASR Decoding with Masked Diffusion

arXiv:2508. 07048v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autoregressive (AR) encoder-decoder models dominate high-quality multilingual ASR, but their left-to-right decoders make inference latency scale with transcript length.

By Taeyoun Kwon, Junhyuk Ahn, Taegeun Yun, Heeju Jwa, Yoonchae Choi, Siwon Park, Jongchan Kim, Hyungon Ryu, Hyuk-Jae Lee, Nam-Joon Kim
arXiv AI
Jun 10

Minimum Distortion Quantization with Specified Output Distribution

arXiv:2606. 10458v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We derive the optimal quantizer of a real-valued random variable $W$ with distribution $P_W$ such that 1) the distribution of the quantization output $X$ that can take $k$ values follows any specified distribution $P_X$ over $\{1,\ldots,k\}$, and 2) the minimum mean squared error (MMSE) of estimating $W$ from $X$ is minimized.

By Aolin Xu
arXiv AI
Jun 10

Democratising Camera Trap AI: An Open-Source Model for Detecting UK Mammals

arXiv:2606. 10940v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Camera traps have become a cornerstone of biodiversity monitoring, but the artificial intelligence that turns vast quantities of images into usable ecological data is often locked behind commercial platforms or trained on fauna that does not match that of the British Isles.

By Paul Fergus, Philip Stephens, Russell A. Hill, Lee Oliver, Katie Appleby, Sarah Beatham, Naomi Davies Walsh, Stuart Nixon, Naomi Matthews, Chris Sutherland, Kelly Hitchcock
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 10

SinkRec: Mitigating Semantic State Sink in Long Sequence Recommendation with Memory-Conditioned Gated Delta Networks

arXiv:2606. 09888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Linear attention provides an efficient backbone for long-sequence recommendation by avoiding the quadratic cost of standard Transformers, but its compressed recurrent state can be dominated by repetitive behavior patterns.

By Zhuang Zhuang, Zhipeng Wei, Ji Dai, Jie Chen, Fei Pan, Peng Jiang, Kun Gai