Inference efficiency

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

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arXiv AI
Jul 16

Inference Economics of Enterprise Coding Agents: A Case Study of Cloud vs. On-Premise LLMs

arXiv:2607. 13080v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous coding agents force engineering organizations to choose between API-based frontier models -- strong reasoning at high token cost -- and on-premise quantized open-weights models, which promise low-marginal-cost scaling and data sovereignty at some loss of reasoning fidelity.

By Sheng-Wei Peng, Yi-Hsun Lin, Yi-Pei Lee
arXiv AI
Jul 16

Kaleido: Algorithm-Hardware Co-Design for Video Diffusion Transformers by Exploiting Latent Space Correlations

arXiv:2607. 13770v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video diffusion transformers (vDiTs) generate high quality video but introduce extremely high compute cost due to the long diffusion timesteps and self attention computation.

By Wenxuan Miao, Haosong Liu, Weiming Hu, Zihan Liu, Aiyue Chen, Jianlin Yu, Yiwu Yao, Yiming Gan, Jieru Zhao, Jingwen Leng, Minyi Guo, Yu Feng
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 15

PiVoT: A Variational Solution for Real-time Large-scale Multi-object Detection and Tracking under Heavy Clutter

Multi-object detection and tracking from noisy point clouds remain challenging in many data-scarce radar applications. Current Bayesian trackers based on Poisson measurement models offer a training-free solution but struggle to achieve accuracy and efficiency under severe clutter, large object populations, and full-resolution Doppler point clouds.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 15

Constraint-Driven Model Optimization: An Industry Framework for Selecting Compression and Acceleration Techniques in Modern Machine Learning Systems

The rapid deployment of machine learning systems across cloud, edge, and enterprise environments has brought model optimization to the forefront of systems-engineering. Despite a rich literature spanning quantization, pruning, knowledge distillation, parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT), and inference-time optimization, practitioners are often left navigating these techniques through heuristics rather than principled methodology.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 15

Consensus as Privileged Context for Label-Free Self-Distillation

Sampling multiple solutions and returning the majority answer is among the most reliable ways to improve the reasoning accuracy of large language models without labels, and a growing family of methods converts this consensus signal into training supervision. However, existing approaches use consensus only in restricted forms: as a filter that selects solutions for fine-tuning, as a preference between answers, or as a scalar reward for reinforcement learning, discarding most of the information that the agreeing solutions contain.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 15

ExTernD: Expanded-Rank Ternary Decomposition Ternary LLM PTQ with Accuracy Approaching Any Quantization Level

We introduce ExTernD (Expanded-rank Ternary Decomposition), a post-training factorization of each LLM weight matrix $A \in \mathbb{R}^{m \times n}$ into $A \approx B \mathrm{diag}(D) C$ with ternary factors $B \in \{-1,0,+1\}^{m \times k}$, $C \in \{-1,0,+1\}^{k \times n}$ and a real scale vector $D \in \mathbb{R}^k$. The inner rank $k = μ\min(m,n)$ is deliberately expanded beyond full rank ($μ> 1$), so that components past full rank correct the quantization error of earlier ones.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 15

Differentiable Clone-Structured Causal Graphs for End-to-End Cognitive Map Learning from Image Sequences

arXiv:2607. 12382v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How can an agent build a structured map of its world from nothing but an ongoing sequence of raw sensory input and its own movements, especially when natural variation means exact sensory patterns rarely repeat?

By Arash Nikzad, Sasan Sarbishegi, Ali Dasmeh, Muhammad Asif, Parsa Gharavi, Erik Husom, Sagar Sen, Andrew B. Lehr, Olivier Penacchio, Ana Clemente, Tristan M. St\"ober