arXiv:2505. 24037v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Sparse large language models (LLMs) offer an attractive direction toward efficient deployment, but adapting them to downstream tasks remains challenging.
By Qiao Xiao, Alan Ansell, Boqian Wu, Lu Yin, Mykola Pechenizkiy, Shiwei Liu, Decebal Constantin Mocanu
arXiv:2605. 25645v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present the first end-to-end demonstration of fine-tuning and serving Google's Gemma 4 31B model on TPU hardware, providing an empirical comparison of TPU and GPU platforms for large language model adaptation.
By Jatin Kishnani, Mayank Goel, Amit Singh, Pulkit Agrawal, Sairanjan Mishra
arXiv:2606. 02842v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal spatial reasoning often relies on long chains of intermediate textual and visual thoughts, where accumulating visual tokens and dense cross-modal attention incur substantial computation and memory overhead.
By Yixian Shen, Zhiheng Yang, Qi Bi, Changshuo Wang, Shuai Wang, Jia-Hong Huang, George Floros, Prayag Tiwari, Anuj Pathania
arXiv:2606. 02739v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audio tokenizers serve as the discrete interface between continuous audio and Audio Language Models (ALMs), but existing tokenizers often struggle to support both understanding and generation.
By Hui Li, Yangfan Gao, Junlin Shang, Changhao Jiang, Tao Gui, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang
arXiv:2606. 02684v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-Policy distillation (OPD) in large language models is shifting from full-trace KL supervision toward more selective training paradigms.
By Yuying Li, Leqi Zheng, Yongzi Yu, Wenrui Zhou, Xuchang Zhong, Xing Hu, Jing Jin, Huangjie Yuan, Tao Feng
arXiv:2606. 03553v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While principal component analysis (PCA) is a fundamental tool for dimensionality reduction, its dense representations make it ill-suited for high-dimensional data.
By David V\"avinggren, Francis Bach, Andr\'e M. H. Teixeira, Dave Zachariah, Ant\^onio H. Ribeiro
arXiv:2606. 03052v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a powerful tool for model compression, yet the precise mechanisms by which student models acquire feature representations remain underexplored.
By Seungu Kang, Songkuk Kim
arXiv:2606. 03938v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-epoch training is becoming the standard now that compute is growing faster than the supply of high-quality text.
By Bishwas Mandal, Shmuel Berman, Akshay Vegesna, Samip Dahal
arXiv:2606. 03180v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) for radiology have emerged as a scalable paradigm by leveraging image-report pairs naturally produced in clinical workflows.
By Jonggwon Park, Seongeun Lee, Junhyun Park, Hannah Yun, Hyunwoong Kim, Sohyun Jeong, Hyewon Kang, Byungmu Yoon, Kyoyun Choi
arXiv:2601. 11667v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Transformer architectures deliver state-of-the-art accuracy via dense full-attention, but their quadratic time and memory complexity with respect to sequence length limits practical deployment.
By Xiaojie Xia, Huigang Zhang, Chaoliang Zhong, Jun Sun, Yusuke Oishi
arXiv:2412. 01282v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) bring powerful understanding and reasoning capabilities to multimodal tasks.
By Qianhan Feng, Wenshuo Li, Tong Lin, Xinghao Chen
arXiv:2606. 03428v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The large sizes of Spiking Vision Transformers (SViTs) still hinder their embedded implementation, highlighting the need for model compression.
By Rachmad Vidya Wicaksana Putra, Achyuta Muthuvelan, Alberto Marchisio, Muhammad Shafique
arXiv:2606. 02955v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion large language models promise parallel token generation, yet inference remains bottlenecked by deciding which masked tokens can be safely committed together.
By Siva Rajesh Kasa, Yasong Dai, Sumit Negi, Hongdong Li
arXiv:2606. 02951v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying language-driven agents in robotics requires evaluations that reflect real-world task demands: natural-language instructions with reproducible outcomes.
By Nikolaj Hindsbo, Sina Ehsani, Pragyana Mishra
arXiv:2606. 03820v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We develop a quantitative approximation framework for diffusion distillation, viewing few-step sampling as error propagation under compositions of learned flow maps.
By Weiguo Gao, Ming Li, Lei Shi, Hanfei Zhou
arXiv:2606. 03089v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) has emerged as an efficient post-training paradigm by using a teacher conditioned on privileged information to provide dense token-level supervision.
By Ming Wen, Yuxuan Liu, Kun Yang, Yunhao Feng, Zhuoer Xu, Yuhao Sun, Shiwen Cui, Xiang Zheng, Xingjun Ma, Yu-Gang Jiang
arXiv:2606. 03888v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-supervised learning has enabled large-scale pre-training on 2D natural images, producing general-purpose visual representations that transfer effectively across tasks.
By Ioannis Gatopoulos, Nicolas K\"anzig, Sebastian Ot\'alora, Fei Tang
arXiv:2606. 03569v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities but suffer from significant computational overhead during inference.
By Jiahui Wang, Kai Zhang, Mai Han, Huanghe Zhang
arXiv:2512. 13996v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Sparse Mixture-of-Experts architectures are essential for scaling model capacity efficiently, yet the standard Top-$k$ routing imposes a rigid sparsity pattern that ignores the intrinsic variance in token difficulty and layer-specific computational needs.
By Can Jin, Hongwu Peng, Mingcan Xiang, Qixin Zhang, Xiangchi Yuan, Amit Hasan, Ohi Dibua, Yifan Gong, Yan Kang, Dimitris N. Metaxas
arXiv:2605. 11954v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in social science as scalable measurement tools for converting unstructured text into variables that can enter standard empirical designs.
By Jinyuan Wang, Ningyuan Deng, Yi Yang