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arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 31

LightRot: A Light-Weighted Rotation Scheme and Architecture for Accurate Low-Bit Large Language Model Inference

arXiv:2607. 27704v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) continue to demonstrate exceptional capabilities across various domains, the challenge of achieving energy-efficient and accurate inference becomes increasingly critical.

By Sangjin Kim, Yuseon Choi, Jungjun Oh, Byeongcheol Kim, Hoi-Jun Yoo
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 31

Contrastive Reinforced Policy Optimization via Privileged Self-Distillation

arXiv:2607. 28026v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in post-training Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly rely on Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) or On-Policy Self-Distillation (OPSD).

By Xingjian Wu, Junlin Liu, Xingchen Liu, Xuhang Zhu, Jianing Wang, Linsen Guo, Xiaoyu Li, Xuezhi Cao, Xunliang Cai
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 31

Beyond Binary Rewards: A Comparative Study of Reward Design for Reinforcement Unlearning

arXiv:2607. 27968v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine unlearning seeks to selectively remove specific knowledge from trained language models without full retraining, a growing necessity under privacy regulations such as GDPR and the EU AI Act.

By Efstratios Zaradoukas, Davide Gabrielli, Bardh Prenkaj, Gjergji Kasneci
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 30

Fidelity Is Not Safety: Gently-Compressed LLMs Pass Every Data-Free Quality Guard Yet Invent Procedure Steps in Agentic Execution

Practitioners accept a compressed language model once it clears a stack of data-cheap quality guards: perplexity within a small factor of the original, downstream accuracy (for example MMLU) inside a confidence interval, and data-free output-fidelity signals that compare the compressed and original network's internal representations under random probe inputs. This stack has a blind spot.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 30

A Query-Efficient Stochastic Volume Rendering Framework for Time-Varying Implicit Neural Volumes

Time-varying implicit neural representations (INRs) provide a compact representation of scientific volumes and, for modalities such as dynamic X-ray computed tomography (CT), are often the only practical way to represent the data. However, interactive volume rendering of INRs is challenging, as cheap memory lookups are replaced by expensive neural inferences, hindering the performance.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 30

Contrastive Reinforced Policy Optimization via Privileged Self-Distillation

Recent advances in post-training Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly rely on Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) or On-Policy Self-Distillation (OPSD). While OPSD provides dense, logit-level supervision, it inherently suffers from exposure bias due to the privileged information of the self-teacher.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 30

Flux-OPD: On-Policy Distillation with Evolving Contexts

Large language model training in open-ended domains lacks verifiable rewards, making task preferences difficult to formalize as effective supervision. Contexts can convey such preferences, yet provide little additional supervision once distilled into the student, motivating contexts that evolve with student performance.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 30

Generalization Bounds on Optimal Control for Transformer Training and Wasserstein Distributional Robustness

We derive finite-sample generalization bounds for Transformers trained with dynamic programming recursions. Building on the doubly lifted, measure-valued formulation of Transformer dynamics, we view data sets as probability laws on pairs of empirical input-output measures, allowing us to interpret the training problem as a finite-horizon Markovian control problem.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 30

S-CEReBrO: Breaking the Memory Barrier in Continuous EEG Monitoring

Foundation models offer a promising paradigm for Electroencephalography (EEG) analysis, leveraging generalizable representations from vast unlabeled datasets. Yet, Transformer-based architectures face a critical bottleneck: global attention mechanisms couple the attention memory state to the signal duration, causing memory overflow during continuous monitoring.