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 4

Stochastic Sparse Attention for Memory-Bound Inference

arXiv:2605. 01910v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autoregressive decoding becomes bandwidth-limited at long contexts, as generating each token requires reading all $n_k$ key and value vectors from KV cache.

By Kyle Lee, Corentin Delacour, Kevin Callahan-Coray, Kyle Jiang, Can Yaras, Samet Oymak, Tathagata Srimani, Kerem Y. Camsari
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 4

Hyper-ICL: Attention Calibration with Hyperbolic Anchor Distillation for Multimodal In-Context Learning

arXiv:2606. 04434v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal In-Context Learning (ICL) has emerged as a practical inference paradigm for Multimodal Large Language Models, where a small set of interleaved image-text In-Context Demonstrations (ICDs) conditions the model to solve new tasks.

By Niloufar Alipour Talemi, Hossein Kashiani, Fatemeh Afghah
arXiv AI
Jun 4

Model-Preserving Adaptive Rounding

arXiv:2505. 22988v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The goal of quantization is to produce a compressed model whose output distribution is as close to the original model's as possible.

By Albert Tseng, Zhaofeng Sun, Christopher De Sa
arXiv AI
Jun 4

LoopFM: Learning frOm HistOrical RePresentations of Foundation Model for Recommendation

arXiv:2605. 29280v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Knowledge distillation (KD) transfers a single scalar prediction from a large foundation model (FM) to compact vertical models (VMs), suffering from diminishing transfer ratio -- the fraction of FM improvement captured by the VM -- as a single scalar cannot convey the rich intermediate knowledge that larger FMs learn.

By Shali Jiang, Hua Zheng, Boyang Liu, Laming Chen, Kenny Lov, Chuanqi Xu, Lisang Ding, Qinghai Zhou, Can Cui, Xiaolong Liu, Xiaoyi Liu, Yasmine Badr, Xin Xu, Jiyan Yang, Ellie Dingqiao Wen, Gerard Jonathan Mugisha Akkerhuis, Chenxiao Guan, Rong Jin, Ruichao Qiu, Xian Chen, Shifu Xu, Zhehui Zhou, Ping Chen, Rui Yang, Haicheng Chen, Xiangge Meng, Song Zhou, Dharak Kharod, Shuyu Xu, Qiang Jin, Qiao Yang, Wankun Zhu, Qin Huang, Yuzhen Huang, Darren Liu, Parish Aggarwal, Hui Zhou, Erzhuo Wang, Shuo Chang, Xiaorui Gan, Wenlin Chen, Santanu Kolay, Huayu Li
arXiv AI
Jun 4

Constrained Adaptive Rejection Sampling

arXiv:2510. 01902v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Language Models (LMs) are increasingly used in applications where generated outputs must satisfy strict semantic or syntactic constraints.

By Pawe{\l} Parys, Sairam Vaidya, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Loris D'Antoni