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arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

Tevatron Meets Megatron: Expert-Parallel LLM Reranker Training on an Academic Budget

arXiv:2608. 00916v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern reranking recipes---billion-scale cross-encoders, mixture-of-experts (MoE) backbones, and distillation against strong teachers---have outpaced the training infrastructure available to most academic groups.

By Zhichao Xu, Xueguang Ma, Shengyao Zhuang, Luyu Gao, Wenqian Ye, Yu Wang, Jamie Callan, Jimmy Lin
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

RHEA: Reliability-Harmonized Reconstruction and Assignment for Robust Multimodal-Attributed Graph Clustering

arXiv:2608. 00621v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal-attributed graphs (MAGs), whose nodes carry heterogeneous attributes such as text and images over a relational structure, have become a fundamental substrate for label-free entity grouping tasks, including community discovery and product segmentation.

By Yinlin Zhu, Di Wu, Ziyu Han, Zekai Chenm, Wang Luo, Miao Hu, Guocong Quan
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

Nova: An End-to-End MLIR Compiler for Deep Learning

arXiv:2608. 00029v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The performance of deep learning models at scale relies heavily on how effectively high-level mathematical operations are mapped to underlying physical hardware.

By Adwaid Suresh, Aparna A, Harshini V M, Jona Delcy C A, Killi Uma Maheswara Rao, Ram Charan Golla, Surendra Vendra
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

Look Ahead Before You Distill: Future Trajectory Validation of Teacher Guidance for Agentic On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2608. 01953v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) provides teacher supervision on states visited by the student, reducing the distribution gap between training and inference.

By Chishui Chen, Yaoyou Fan, Te Sun, Yi Yang, Chenghao Sun, Delin Mao, Hongbo Qiao, Zuowei Zhang, Junxi Wang, Chenxing Sun, Yangen Hu, Lu Pan, Xuyang Liu, Linfeng Zhang
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

Constrained Co-Design for Photonic Bayesian Neural Networks

arXiv:2608. 02229v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Classical neural networks frequently produce overconfident predictions on ambiguous or out-of-distribution (OOD) data, a liability that grows with each AI system deployed in safety-critical real-world scenarios.

By Hendrik Borras, Xiao Wang, Bernhard Klein, Robin Janssen, Frank Br\"uckerhoff-Pl\"uckelmann, Wolfram Pernice, Holger Fr\"oning
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

Sign-Aware Gated Sparse Autoencoders: Modeling Anticorrelated Features with Bi-Jump-ReLU Activations

arXiv:2605. 28149v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) extract interpretable features from Large Language Model activations, but standard variants enforce non-negative latents, so a bidirectional semantic axis (e.

By Bartosz Wieciech, Zmnako Awrahman, Marcin Czelej, Victor Hugo Jaramillo Velasquez, Wioletta Stobieniecka
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Radio Resource Management under Coupled Finite-Horizon Constraints

arXiv:2608. 01745v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Maximizing throughput under proportional fairness in dense wireless networks requires jointly managing user association, scheduling, base station (BS) activation, and handover control under hard finite-horizon energy and handover budgets, which induces a fundamental tension between BS-side energy management and user-side handover regulation.

By Yeonseo Jeong, Wonhyeok Ko, Sungweon Hong, Songnam Hong
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

GradientStabilizer:Fix the Norm, Not the Gradient

arXiv:2502. 17055v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Training instability in modern deep learning systems is frequently triggered by rare but extreme gradient-norm spikes, which can induce oversized parameter updates, corrupt optimizer state, and lead to slow recovery or divergence.

By Tianjin Huang, Zhangyang Wang, Haotian Hu, Zhenyu Zhang, Gaojie Jin, Xiang Li, Li Shen, Jiaxing Shang, Tianlong Chen, Ke Li, Lu Liu, Qingsong Wen, Shiwei Liu
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

Self-Improving Large Language Models via Progressive Experience Evolution

arXiv:2608. 02139v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) capable of self-improvement require not only effective policy optimization, but also a principled mechanism for transforming transient interaction experience into persistent model capabilities.

By Shijie Ren, Xiting Wang, Meng Li, Yujie Guo, Yunhang Yao, Ziheng Peng, Xunlong Wang, Yuetan Chen, Haoyang Zhou, Yunlong Liang, Fandong Meng