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
Jun 10

FADA: Accessible fetal ultrasound interpretation and annotation with a selectively distilled unified vision-language model

arXiv:2606. 11106v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A global shortage of trained sonographers limits prenatal ultrasound screening in low- and middle-income countries, where over half of pregnant women receive no skilled sonography.

By Mahmood Alzubaidi, Uzair Shah, Raden Muaz, Ines Abbes, Nader Mohammed, Abdullatif Magram, Khalid Alyafei, Mowafa Househ, Marco Agus
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 10

PRISM: Parallel Residual Iterative Sequence Model

arXiv:2602. 10796v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generative sequence modeling faces a fundamental tension between the expressivity of Transformers and the efficiency of linear sequence models.

By Jie Jiang, Ke Cheng, Xin Xu, Mengyang Pang, Tianhao Lu, Jiaheng Li, Yue Liu, Yuan Wang, Jun Zhang, Huan Yu, Zhouchen Lin
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

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
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 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