Inference efficiency

Quantization, distillation, pruning and serving work aimed at the same accuracy for less memory, latency and money.

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arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 24

KroQuant: Kronecker-Structured Block Transforms for Efficient Post-Training Quantization of Diffusion Transformers

arXiv:2607. 21446v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training quantization (PTQ) of diffusion transformers (DiTs) to W4A4 severely degrades output quality, because activations entering each linear layer contain outliers that 4-bit formats cannot represent.

By Yann Bouquet, Alireza Khodamoradi, Kristof Denolf, Mathieu Salzmann
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 24

Transformer-based Diffusion models for Hydrological Time Series Probabilistic Imputation and Forecasting

arXiv:2607. 21200v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The modeling of hydrometeorological time series with limited observations is a key challenge in the monitoring of hydro-systems and water resources, as well as for flood or drought risk assessment.

By Ferdinand Bhavsar (INRAE), Lionel Benoit (INRAE), Maxime Savatier (ANDRA), Edith Gabriel (INRAE)
arXiv AI
Jul 24

EvoSQL: Memory-Augmented Critic-Generator Co-Evolution for Text-to-SQL

arXiv:2607. 20489v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-SQL has advanced rapidly with large language models, but complex database queries still require reasoning beyond one-shot generation, including multi-step decomposition, execution-based diagnosis, and targeted correction.

By Jiawei Zhou, Jianwei Wang, Chenyu Zhou, Chaojian Shi, Ming Dong, Kai Wang
arXiv AI
Jul 24

Self-Evolving Recommendation System: End-To-End Autonomous Model Optimization With LLM Agents

arXiv:2602. 10226v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Optimizing large-scale machine learning systems, such as recommendation models for global video platforms, requires navigating a massive hyperparameter search space and, more critically, designing sophisticated optimizers, architectures, and reward functions to capture nuanced user behaviors.

By Haochen Wang, Yi Wu, Daryl Chang, Li Wei, Lukasz Heldt
arXiv AI
Jul 24

Visual Contrastive Self-Distillation

arXiv:2607. 21556v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) is promising as it removes the external teacher required by on-policy distillation (OPD), yet it still needs asymmetric information between teacher and student to ensure that the self-teacher provides a stronger learning signal than the student.

By Yijun Liang, Yunjie Tian, Yijiang Li, Yuqi Jia, Furong Huang, Tianyi Zhou, Di Fu