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 2

Cornerstones or Stumbling Blocks? Deciphering the Rock Tokens in On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2605. 09253v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While recent work in Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has shown that a small subset of critical tokens disproportionately drives reasoning gains, an analogous token-level understanding of On-Policy Distillation (OPD) remains largely unexplored.

By Yuxuan Jiang, Runchao Li, Shubhashis Roy Dipta, Dawei Li, Zhao Yang
arXiv AI
Jun 2

SIRI: Self-Internalizing Reinforcement Learning with Intrinsic Skills for LLM Agent Training

arXiv:2606. 02355v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon LLM agents can benefit from reusable skills, yet existing skill-based methods often rely on external skill generators during training or persistent skill retrieval at inference, increasing engineering complexity, context length, and deployment latency.

By Zhongyu He, Yuanfan Li, Fei Huang, Tianyu Chen, Siyuan Chen, Xingyang Li, Meng Hsuan Yu, Xiangrong Liu, Leyi Wei, Lu Pan, Ke Zeng, Xunliang Cai
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

Single-Channel Tissue Segmentation via Cross-Modal Distillation from Foundation Models

arXiv:2606. 00928v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multiplexed fluorescence microscopy improves tissue segmentation by providing complementary channels including nuclear (DAPI) and membrane (E-cadherin), that together encode richer spatial context than single-channel imaging alone.

By Sakib Mohammad, Jarin Ritu, Md Sakhawat Hossain
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

UniPinRec: Unifying Generative Retrieval and Ranking at Pinterest Scale

arXiv:2606. 00422v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern recommendation systems predominantly train retrieval and ranking as separate models despite both increasingly relying on large transformers encoding the same user behavior data, duplicating parameters, compute, and serving cost.

By Hanyu Li, Yi-Ping Hsu, Aditya Mantha, Prabhat Agarwal, Laksh Bhasin, Jialu Wang, Hongtao Lin, Bella Huang, Yaxin Li, Xinyi Li, Chuxi Wang, Kousik Rajesh, Hooshmand Shokri Razaghi, Shunyao Li, Zongyue Qin, Jaewon Yang, James Li, Dhruvil Deven Badani, Jiajing Xu, Charles Rosenberg
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

Resonant Context Anchoring: Decoupling Attention Routing and Signal Gain at Inference Time

arXiv:2606. 01923v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) frequently exhibit "contextual disregard" when faced with input evidence that conflicts with their internal parametric memory, leading to persistent factual hallucinations.

By Mingkuan Zhao, Yide Gao, Wentao Hu, Suquan Chen, Tianchen Huang, Zhenhua An, Zetao Chang, Xiayu Sun, Yuheng Min