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 10

EdgeRefine: Privacy-Utility Balance for Graphs via Jaccard Sampling under Edge Differential Privacy

arXiv:2607. 08659v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown considerable success in learning from graph-structured data, but their use in privacy-sensitive areas remains difficult because graph structure can leak sensitive link information.

By Wenxiu Ding, Muzhi Liu, Zheng Yan, Mingjun Wang, Yifan Zhao, Qiao Liu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 10

Closing the Null Space: Guidance-Aware Quantization for Classifier-Free Diffusion

arXiv:2607. 08241v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying classifier-free guidance (CFG) diffusion models under real-world compute budgets requires quantization, yet existing post-training quantization (PTQ) methods treat CFG models as single-branch networks, ignoring the paired conditional/unconditional structure that CFG inference fundamentally relies on.

By Abdullah Al Shafi, Sumaiya Rahim Suma
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 10

What to Keep, What to Forget: A Rate--Distortion View of Memory Compaction in LLMs and Agents

arXiv:2607. 08032v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models, and the agents built on them, spend an ever-growing share of their compute and memory on remembering: caching attention keys and values, carrying long prompts, maintaining recurrent state, and storing what happened in previous turns and sessions.

By Ashwin Gerard Colaco, Nada Lahjouji
arXiv AI
Jul 10

Curriculum Learning for Efficient Chain-of-Thought Distillation via Structure-Aware Masking and GRPO

arXiv:2602. 17686v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Distilling Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning from large language models into compact student models presents a fundamental challenge: teacher rationales are often too verbose for smaller models to faithfully reproduce.

By Bowen Yu, Maolin Wang, Sheng Zhang, Binhao Wang, Yi Wen, Jingtong Gao, Bowen Liu, Zimo Zhao, Wanyu Wang, Xiangyu Zhao
arXiv AI
Jul 10

Structured Pruning of Large Language Models via Power Transformation and Sign-Preserving Score Aggregation with Adaptive Feature Retention

arXiv:2607. 08027v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper proposes an improved structured pruning method for large language models (LLMs) that addresses key challenges in adapting Adaptive Feature Retention (AFR), an unstructured pruning technique, to structured pruning.

By Ryota Kobayashi, Tsubasa Hirakawa, Takayoshi Yamashita, Hironobu Fujiyoshi, Yasunori Ishii, Tomoyuki Okuno, Kazuki Kozuka