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 7

TORINO: Token Reduction via Interpretable Concept Overlap in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2607. 04593v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across different tasks, but their computational cost is dominated by the large number of visual tokens fed to the language model.

By Riccardo Renzulli, Gabriele Spadaro, Shruthi Gowda, Alaa Eddine Mazouz, Van-Tam Nguyen
arXiv AI
Jul 7

HASSL: Hierarchy-Aware Self-Supervised Learning Framework for Single Cell Microscopy

arXiv:2607. 04353v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hierarchical structure is common in image data, where fine-grained clusters often merge into larger, coarser semantic groups.

By Julius Riel, Vishwa Mohan Singh, Sai Anirudh Aryasomayajula, Anuun Chinbat, Hannes Leonhard, Moritz Ladenburger, Frederik Alexander, Vishisht Choudhary, Fabio Laredo, Giacomo Masserdotti, Thorben Prein, Carsten Marr, Amirhossein Kardoost
arXiv AI
Jul 7

HiFA4: Training-Free 4-bit FlashAttention on Ascend HIF4 NPUs for LLM Inference

arXiv:2607. 04302v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present HiFA4, a post-training operator-level design that executes both QK^T and PV in FlashAttention as 4-bit HIF4 Cube GEMMs for LLM inference on Ascend NPUs, while maintaining the online softmax state in FP16.

By Hui Dong, Yanzhao Li, Jie Gao, Chunlu Li, Zhiyuan Zhang, Yupeng Sun, Zhenyuan Chen, Zhiqiang Zou
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

OC-Distill: Ontology-aware Contrastive Learning with Cross-Modal Distillation for ICU Risk Prediction

arXiv:2604. 16878v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Early prediction of severe clinical deterioration and remaining length of stay can enable timely intervention and better resource allocation in high-acuity settings such as the ICU.

By Zhongyuan Liang, Junhyung Jo, Hyang-Jung Lee, Sang Kyu Kim, Irene Y. Chen
arXiv AI
Jul 7

Metronome: Bound the Cache, Keep the Beat for Real-Time Interaction Model Serving

arXiv:2607. 02640v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-time interaction models -- Moshi, MiniCPM-o, Qwen-Omni -- turn serving into a periodic real-time task: on every frame a session ingests streaming audio and must respond by a recurring wall-clock deadline, while its KV cache grows monotonically and stays pinned for the whole conversation.

By Jiaying Meng, Bojie Li
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

Self-Supervised Learning from Structural Invariance

arXiv:2602. 02381v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Joint-embedding self-supervised learning (SSL), the key paradigm for unsupervised representation learning from visual data, learns from invariances between semantically-related data pairs.

By Yipeng Zhang, Hafez Ghaemi, Jungyoon Lee, Shahab Bakhtiari, Eilif B. Muller, Laurent Charlin