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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 22

H$^2$SD: Hybrid Hindsight Self-Distillation

arXiv:2607. 18955v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has substantially improved the reasoning capabilities of large language models on tasks such as mathematical reasoning and code generation.

By Qiye Cai, Yichuan Ma, Linyang Li, Peiji Li, Yongkang Chen, Qipeng Guo, Yicheng Zou, Tao Gui, Xiaocheng Feng, Bing Qin
arXiv AI
Jul 22

ABot-World-0: Infinite Interactive World Rollout on a Single Desktop GPU

arXiv:2607. 19191v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present ABot-World-0, an action-conditioned video world model for real-time, long-horizon closed-loop interaction, supported by a multi-source data infrastructure spanning AAA games, simulation engines, and internet videos to learn controllable world dynamics.

By Fan Jiang, Zhaoxu Sun, Mengchao Wang, Ziyu Zhu, Chiyu Wang, Yunpeng Zhang, Wenlin Liu, Yun Wang, Xue Zheng, Rui Sun, Junfeng Ni, Hongyu Pan, Zhongxu Sun, Fei Yu, Zengye Ge, Mengmeng Du, Nianfei Fan, Mingchao Sun, Yu Liu, Yongchang, Yanqing Zhu, Jiahang Wang, Ning Ying, Yuze Xuan, Di Yang, Zhicheng Liu, Zhe Gao, Tingbing Xu, Jiacheng Sui, Wenjin Yang, Junnan Lai, Shufeng Liu, Yuan Liu, Zheng Zhou, Yingliang Peng, Dawei Cao, Kaifeng Sheng, Yuxiang Cai, Fei Lu, Mu Xu, Ning Guo
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 22

QScheduler: Adaptive Gradient Sampling for Zeroth-Order On-Device Training on INT8 NPUs

arXiv:2607. 18802v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Zeroth-Order (ZO) optimization enables On-Device Learning (ODL) on NPU-equipped microcontrollers by estimating gradients through forward passes alone, bypassing the need for backpropagation primitives and reducing memory requirements.

By Victor Felipe Domingues Do Amaral (GeePs), Pierre Demaj (GeePs), Erwan Libessart (GeePs), Laurent Folliot (GeePs), Anthony Kolar (GeePs), Philippe B\'enab\`es (GeePs)
arXiv AI
Jul 22

Trajectory-Aware Clinical Risk Prediction via Severity-Grounded Knowledge Graphs and Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2607. 18270v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Electronic Health Records (EHRs) offer a wealth of clinical data, effectively augmenting a patient's records with heterogeneous external knowledge to predict the patient's clinical risk remains a significant challenge.

By Kyunghoon Jeon, Youmin Ko, Woohwan Jung, Hyunjoon Kim
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 22

Vectorizing the Trie: Efficient Constrained Decoding for LLM-based Generative Retrieval on Accelerators

arXiv:2602. 22647v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generative retrieval has emerged as a powerful paradigm for LLM-based recommendation.

By Zhengyang Su, Isay Katsman, Yueqi Wang, Ruining He, Lukasz Heldt, Raghunandan Keshavan, Shao-Chuan Wang, Xinyang Yi, Mingyan Gao, Onkar Dalal, Lichan Hong, Ed Chi, Ningren Han
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 22

Recti-Q: Feature-Space Rectification for Out-of-Distribution-Robust Quantized Perception in Edge Robotics

arXiv:2607. 18540v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robotic perception pipelines increasingly rely on large vision backbones deployed on SWaP-constrained edge platforms, making post-training quantization (PTQ) attractive for real-time inference.

By Hamidreza Yaghoubi Araghi, Parastoo Pilevar, Ming C. Lin
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 22

Stale but Stable: Staleness-Adaptive Trust Regions for Stabilizing Asynchronous Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2607. 18722v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Asynchronous reinforcement learning improves throughput by decoupling rollout generation from optimization, but staleness is an inevitable byproduct compounded by policy lag, engine delays, and mixture-of-experts routing.

By Junyao Yang, Yucheng Shi, Zongxia Li, Zhongzhi Li, Ruhan Wang, Xiangxin Zhou, Kishan Panaganti, Haitao Mi, Leowei Liang