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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 21

FlashRT: Agent Harness for Guiding Agents to Deploy Real-Time Multimodal Applications

arXiv:2607. 18171v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-time multimodal applications, including voice agents and interactive video generation, compose heterogeneous models into pipelines whose efficient deployment requires application-specific decisions about placement, streaming, and intra-model parallelism.

By Krish Agarwal, Zhuoming Chen, Yanyuan Qin, Zhenyu Gu, Atri Rudra, Beidi Chen
arXiv AI
Jul 21

SelectInfer: Selective Neuron Loading and Computation for On-Device LLMs

arXiv:2607. 18081v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across a range of Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, but their high computational and memory demands pose significant challenges for deployment on resource-constrained edge devices.

By Huzaifa Shaaban Kabakibo, Eric Schniedermeyer, Artem Burchanow, Lin Wang
arXiv AI
Jul 21

Lyapunov Stability-Aware Stackelberg Game for Low-Altitude Economy: A Control-Oriented Pruning-Based DRL Approach

arXiv:2602. 01131v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: With the rapid expansion of the low-altitude economy, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) serve as pivotal aerial base stations supporting diverse services from users, ranging from latency-sensitive critical missions to bandwidth-intensive data streaming.

By Yue Zhong, Jiawen Kang, Yongju Tong, Hong-Ning Dai, Dong In Kim, Abbas Jamalipour, Shengli Xie
arXiv AI
Jul 21

CADENCE: Closing the Reasoning Gap via Coverage-Adaptive On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2607. 16955v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy knowledge distillation transfers reasoning from large teachers to compact students, but existing approaches suffer three compounding failure modes: (i) cold-start collapse, where a fresh student assigns near-zero mass to teacher-preferred tokens; (ii) state-agnostic divergence scheduling, where time-only forward/reverse-KL interpolation ignores the student's coverage state; and (iii) binary reward sparsity, where pass/fail signals discard information from partially correct traces.

By Satyam Kumar, Saurabh Jha
arXiv AI
Jul 21

Emergent Hierarchical Monosemantic Neurons from the Group-Contrastive Forward-Forward Algorithm

arXiv:2607. 16295v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mechanistic interpretability has made significant strides in understanding neural network representations, with sparse dictionary learning (SDL) methods, most prominently sparse autoencoders, as a central paradigm.

By Yiming Tang, Qinglin Qi, Zhaoqian Yao, Harshvardhan Saini, Dianbo Liu