arXiv:2509. 25837v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) deliver remarkable performance but are costly to deploy, motivating knowledge distillation (KD) for efficient inference.
By Yeongmin Kim, Donghyeok Shin, Mina Kang, Byeonghu Na, Il-Chul Moon
arXiv:2606. 00798v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Parameter compression of class-conditional diffusion models reveals an underexplored limitation in output-level distillation: the unconditional score branch remains unsupervised, leaving the classifier-free guidance gap underdetermined in the student.
By Abdullah Al Shafi, Kazi Saeed Alam, Sk Imran Hossain, Engelbert Mephu Nguifo
arXiv:2606. 02530v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with human values often degrades their general capabilities, termed the alignment tax.
By Hao Li, Jingkun An, Zijun Song, Pengyu Zhu, Rui Li, Hao Wang, Wendi Feng, Yesheng Liu, Lijun Li, Jin-Ge Yao, Lei Sha
arXiv:2606. 00562v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The emerging paradigm of "thinking with images" embeds visual states into intermediate reasoning steps, defining a new frontier for Vision-Language Models.
By Dongchen Lu, Zhimo Li, Mao Shu, Huo Cao
arXiv:2606. 00658v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large video diffusion models achieve strong visual quality but remain expensive to deploy because each sample requires many denoising steps and a large resident parameter footprint.
By Jinyang Du, Shenghao Jin, Ziqian Xu, Ruihao Gong, Shiqiao Gu, Yang Yong, Jinyang Guo, Xianglong Liu
arXiv:2505. 18113v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Training quantized neural networks requires addressing the non-differentiable and discrete nature of the underlying optimization problem.
By Halyun Jeong, Jack Xin, Penghang Yin
arXiv:2512. 00956v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Quantizing LLM weights and activations is a standard approach for efficient deployment, but a few extreme outliers can stretch the dynamic range and amplify low-bit quantization errors.
By Jiale Chen, Vage Egiazarian, Roberto L. Castro, Torsten Hoefler, Dan Alistarh
arXiv:2602. 01053v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Role specialization in multi-LLM agent systems is often realized via multi-LoRA, where agents share a pretrained backbone and differ only by lightweight adapters.
By Hyesung Jeon, Hyeongju Ha, Jae-Joon Kim
arXiv:2606. 01767v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electroencephalography (EEG) is the cornerstone of non-invasive brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), yet conventional decoding relies on fragmented, task-specific architectures that severely limit cross-task scalability.
By Yangxuan Zhou, Sha Zhao, Jiquan Wang, Shijian Li, Gang Pan
arXiv:2606. 01544v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) in practice incurs substantial memory and computational costs.
By Cheonjun Park
arXiv:2606. 01765v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: What formal languages can a recurrent neural language model recognize?
By Franz Nowak, Ryan Cotterell, Reda Boumasmoud
arXiv:2604. 20861v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Semantic IDs (SIDs) provide the discrete item vocabulary used by generative recommendation, but their quality depends on what item evidence is preserved before quantization.
By Yangchen Zeng, Jinze Wang
arXiv:2604. 10169v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Trajectory prediction is a key component of autonomous driving systems because future motions directly affect collision checking, behavior planning, and control.
By Wenchang Duan, Zhenguo Gao, Jinguo Xian, Yi Shi
arXiv:2512. 00062v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robotic policy learning for complex real-world manipulation tasks has seen rapid recent progress, enabled in large part by the ability to collect demonstrations through human operation.
By Taewook Nam, Junmo Cho, Youngsoo Jang, Sung Ju Hwang
arXiv:2605. 27835v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce CAREF, a parameter-efficient fine-tuning framework that jointly optimizes predictive accuracy and explanation faithfulness via calibration-aware regularization.
By Naphat Nithisopa, Teerapong Panboonyuen
arXiv:2606. 00206v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training quantization (PTQ) is widely used to deploy large language models efficiently, but its effect on reasoning models is not well understood.
By Sanae Lotfi, Polina Kirichenko, Steven Li, Zechun Liu
arXiv:2605. 27095v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning from demonstrations in embodied control is often cast as behavioral cloning, and recent diffusion or flow-matching policies improve this paradigm by modeling multi-modal expert actions.
By Zhenglin Wan, Jingxuan Wu, Xingrui Yu, Chubin Zhang, Mingcong Lei, Bo An, Ivor W. Tsang, Yang You
arXiv:2605. 00161v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion language models (DLMs) are an attractive alternative to autoregressive models because they promise sublinear-time, parallel generation, yet practical gains remain elusive as high-quality samples still demand hundreds of refinement steps.
By Hasan Amin, Yuan Gao, Yaser Souri, Subhojit Som, Ming Yin, Rajiv Khanna, Xia Song
arXiv:2602. 10056v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce WildCat, a high-accuracy, low-cost approach to compressing the attention mechanism in neural networks.
By Tobias Schr\"oder, Lester Mackey
arXiv:2606. 01839v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-based agents resolve a user task through many turns of dependent inference and tool calls, producing a workload whose total cost is unknown when the task arrives.
By Jianru Ding, Ryien Hosseini, Pouya Mahdi Gholami, Mingyuan Xiang, Henry Hoffmann