We study dense-to-sparse continual training as a way to construct channel-sparse large language models from dense checkpoints. Starting from a Qwen2.
The scalability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to long contexts is fundamentally constrained by the quadratic complexity of standard attention, motivating the adoption of linear attention mechanisms with sub-quadratic cost. To improve representation capacity under long contexts, recent approaches organize memory in a multi-state manner.
3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) is a powerful technique for creating high-fidelity 3D assets. However, the widespread sharing and iterative modification of 3DGS models across digital platforms create pressing challenges for intellectual property protection and forensic traceability.
Traditional heuristic solvers for the 2D irregular nesting problem share a fundamental limitation: they are blind to polygon geometry, relying on guided brute-force to navigate the continuous placement space with minimal geometrical guidance. In this paper, we argue that Reinforcement Learning is uniquely positioned to overcome this bottleneck.
External memory effectively grounds large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs)-based question answering (QA) in relevant multimodal evidence. However, existing memory paradigms represent each memory item in raw text and image forms, so retrieval-based systems must pass the retrieved text or images to the generation LLMs/VLMs, resulting in high token consumption and storage pressure, making it unaffordable for resource-constrained applications.
Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) re-encode the entire prefix at every denoising step, causing recomputation that scales quadratically with context length and becomes prohibitive for long-context scenarios. We propose Prefilling-dLLM, a training-free prefill-decode disaggregation framework for dLLMs that partitions the prefix into N chunks, caches their KV representations once, and selects the top-K most relevant chunks with intra-chunk token sparsity for decoding, showing that sparse prefilling can outperform dense attention while reducing per-step complexity from quadratic in the full sequence length to quadratic only in the decode length.
Coastline detection in remote sensing imagery is commonly formulated as a pixel-wise segmentation problem, where the final coastline is extracted from a predicted mask through post-processing. This formulation relegates coastline geometry, the primary representation used in coastal change analysis, to a secondary artifact rather than the learning objective.
Semi-structured 2:4 sparsity is widely supported by modern accelerators, providing up to a 2x theoretical speedup. However, its strict 50% sparsity constraint often causes non-negligible accuracy degradation under post-training pruning.
We argue that forgetting is not confined to continual learning but is a general optimization phenomenon: during standard training, dominant mini-batch gradients suppress rare but useful update directions, causing short-term forgetting at every step. When such knowledge is never revisited, these losses compound into long-term forgetting-the classical failure mode of continual learning.
Large language models are increasingly used to power personal agents for everyday applications, but evaluating these agents remains a challenge. Existing benchmarks still rely on sandboxed artifacts, static task design, and coarse scoring, which hinder scalability and limit progress toward reliable personal-agent evaluation.
arXiv:2509. 24762v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modeling event sequences of multiple event types with marked temporal point processes (MTPPs) provides a principled way to uncover governing dynamical rules and predict future events.
By David Berghaus, Patrick Seifner, Kostadin Cvejoski, C\'esar Ojeda, Rams\'es J. S\'anchez
arXiv:2606. 08649v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Forensic analysis of web server logs demands both accurate detection and human-readable explanations that can satisfy legal requirements.
By Bernhard Kneip, Nhien-An Le-Khac, Hong-Hanh Nguyen-Le
arXiv:2606. 07684v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Disaggregated serving alleviates memory bottlenecks in Large Language Model (LLM) inference but creates a severe communication bottleneck: transmitting high-dimensional Key-Value (KV) caches often dominates time-to-first-token (TTFT).
By Qianli Ma, Zhiqing Tang, Hanshuai Cui, Zhi Yao, Weijia Jia
arXiv:2606. 07726v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models are typically benchmarked by evaluating every model on every test query.
By Zifan Lyu, Chahine Nejma, Tobias Wegel, Fanny Yang, Florian E. Dorner
arXiv:2606. 09674v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Trellis: an autoformalization system that leverages LLM agents in a deterministically constrained workflow to enforce incremental progress in Lean autoformalization tasks through iterative refinement of natural language proofs.
By Wesley Pegden
arXiv:2606. 08970v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) with varying performance and resource requirements are widely deployed, making it difficult for users to select the most appropriate one among numerous VLM candidates.
By Can Wang, Shengwei Wang, Bolin Zhang, Zhiying Tu, Dianhui Chu
arXiv:2606. 09672v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ask a pretrained biomedical language model whether "cortisol 28 ug/dL" and "stock-market volatility" are related, and it returns a cosine similarity of 0.
By Suraj Biswas, Saurabh Gupta, Pritam Mukherjee
arXiv:2606. 07559v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fine-tuning a language model on contexts whose correct completion has a near-synonym competitor often fails silently.
By Vaibhav Prakash, Jayasri Dontabhaktuni
arXiv:2606. 07541v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown strong performance on objective tasks such as video understanding and reasoning.
By Prabal Shrestha, Bohan Jiang, Haoning Xue, Huan Liu, Xinyi Zhou
arXiv:2606. 07665v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transformer inference increasingly depends on specialized compiler and runtime support, but real model graphs still require semantic decisions about which regions are worth specializing and which CUDA implementation families are plausible.
By Xuanzhe Li, Ziyan Weng, Zhiyu Zhu, Junhui Hou