Every paper checked — nothing hidden
All papers
Every paper checked in the week of 12–18 Oct 2026 · Small and efficient models — nothing is hidden. Brief papers first.
All2,430In brief3More (on-topic)455Not relevant1,957Not assessed6Older27Could not confirm6Blogs with no paper16All blogs19
| Paper | Topic | Relevance | Feedback |
|---|---|---|---|
| Product Monte Carlo: Expectation Under a Product of Densities Proposes Product Monte Carlo to compute expectations under products of densities using draws from individual densities via regression. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Deals with statistical density aggregation, not small or efficient language models. | |
| A Distributional Framework for Behavioral Characterization and Risk Management of Large Language Models Presents a Monte Carlo simulation framework to quantify distributional response shifts and model risks across language model lifecycles. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Focuses on behavioral risk characterization, not model compression or efficiency. | |
| Spatial Context or Memory? Sizing the Inputs of Neural Surrogates for Partially Observed Fields Analyzes the optimal balance between spatial sensor window size and temporal history when forecasting partially observed physical fields. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Focuses on physics surrogates, not small language models or efficient LLM inference. | |
| Minimax Rates for Estimating Powered Sliced Wasserstein Functionals Establishes minimax estimation rates and examines plug-in estimators for powered sliced Wasserstein functionals under moment bounds. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Covers statistical convergence rates rather than small or efficient language models. | |
| Neural expectation-maximization and meta-models Interprets Transformer networks as learned approximations to loopy belief propagation and expectation-maximization in dynamic Markov random fields. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Theoretical analysis of Transformer inference mechanisms, not model compression or efficient serving. | |
| NV-Tesseract-AD: Curriculum-Enhanced Conditional Diffusion for Multivariate Time-Series Anomaly Detection Introduces a dual-curriculum conditional diffusion framework for multivariate time-series anomaly detection across varying masking and noise levels. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Focuses on time-series diffusion models rather than efficient language model serving. | |
| Provenance-grouped protocol for evaluating machine learning in perovskite photovoltaics Proposes an institutional provenance-grouped evaluation protocol to eliminate data leakage when benchmarking models for perovskite photovoltaics. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Focuses on materials science machine learning, not small or efficient language models. | |
| Credit Attribution in Timestamped Soccer Networks Using Multivariate Hawkes Processes Applies multivariate Hawkes processes to sequence data of soccer passes and shots to distribute attacking credit across multiple players. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Addresses soccer event sequences rather than efficient language models or compression. | |
| Coordinate-Free Automatic Differentiation Presents a coordinate-free automatic differentiation formulation that expresses geometric differential operations within standard machine learning primitives. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Focuses on mathematical automatic differentiation operators, not model compression or small language models. | |
| Polyconvex neural-network surrogates with learned paired directional features for anisotropic hyperelastic homogenization Develops polyconvex neural network surrogate models using learned paired directional features for anisotropic hyperelastic material homogenization. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Concerns neural surrogates for hyperelastic homogenization, not small language models or efficient LLM serving. | |
| Trainable Quantum-Native Language Models: Dissipative Memory, Capacity Limits, and Hardware Validation Investigates quantum-native byte-level language models, analyzing memory limits under learned dissipation and testing them on quantum hardware. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Focuses on quantum register architectures, not classical model compression, distillation, or efficient inference. | |
| The Expressive Power of Random-Feature MPNNs Across Graph Sizes Analyzes the expressive power and size-uniform approximation limits of message-passing neural networks using continuous random node features. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Theoretical graph expressivity paper, not about small models, quantization, or efficient serving. | |
| Inverse Synthesis of Shock Time Series from Shock Response Spectra Using Ensembles of Conditional Variational Autoencoders Uses ensembles of conditional variational autoencoders with wavelet decoders to synthesize acceleration time series from shock response spectra. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Engineering signal processing using CVAEs, unrelated to efficient language models. | |
| TreeHCA: Hindsight-Guided Exploration and Credit Assignment for Multi-Turn LLM Agents Develops a tree-based exploration and hindsight credit assignment method to improve multi-turn reinforcement learning for language model agents. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Focuses on agent reinforcement learning algorithms rather than model compression or efficient serving. | |
| Scalable Learning of Determinantal Point Processes with Kernel-Structured Interactions Introduces a scalable training method for determinantal point processes using nonlinear kernels, latent features, and stochastic optimization. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Focuses on kernel estimation for point processes, not small or efficient neural models. | |
| Cross-Behavior Policy Optimization: Unified Learning from Offline Demonstrations and On- and Off-Policy Rollouts via a Shared Regression Target Proposes a cross-behavior policy optimization framework unifying offline demonstrations and online rollouts via a shared regression objective. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Focuses on policy optimization for reasoning, not model compression or efficient serving. | |
| Reinforcement Learning via Fixed-point Flow Matching Presents fixed-point flow matching, a data-free procedure that trains flow policies in reinforcement learning without requiring demonstration data. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Studies flow-matching RL policies, not small or efficient model serving. | |
| Two-way Guidance: Simultaneous Learning of Summary Statistics for Generative Bayes Introduces a two-way guidance framework that jointly learns sufficient summary statistics and posteriors for scalable simulation-based inference. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Statistical inference paper unrelated to efficient language models or model compression. | |
| Universal Bounds for Self-Normalized Kullback-Leibler Estimation Establishes finite-sample bounds for self-normalized Kullback-Leibler divergence estimators and applies them to test-time alignment sampling techniques. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Theoretical bounds on importance sampling, not efficient model compression or serving. | |
| Robust Langevin Sampling under State-Dependent Heavy-Tailed Noise with Applications to LLM Fine-Tuning Analyzes Langevin sampling algorithms under state-dependent heavy-tailed gradient noise with applications to Bayesian fine-tuning of language models. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Focuses on theoretical sampling convergence rather than efficient inference or small models. | |
| When Solvers Get Moody: Quantifying and Predicting Performance Variability in Mixed Integer Programming Proposes a weighted metric to quantify and predict performance variability across mixed-integer programming solver runs. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Focuses on operations research MIP solvers, not small or efficient neural models. | |
| HART: Hybrid Attention-RWKV Time series Foundation Model Introduces a hybrid attention-RWKV architecture to mitigate horizon degradation in non-autoregressive time series forecasting. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Focuses on time-series foundation model architecture design rather than model compression/efficiency. | |
| CoGameReg: Cooperative-Game-Based Collaborative Semi-Supervised Regression for Seismic Reservoir Property Prediction Presents a cooperative game theoretic semi-supervised regression framework for predicting reservoir properties from seismic data. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Presents a domain-specific regression framework, not small or efficient language models. | |
| Personalized Federated Direct Preference Optimization via LoRA Adapters Develops a personalized federated preference optimization framework maintaining local LoRA adapters atop a globally synchronized model. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Uses LoRA for federated personalization, not model distillation, quantization, or efficient serving. | |
| Generalized Determinantal Point Processes for Attraction and Repulsion with Distinct Interaction Kernels Introduces determinant-ratio point processes to jointly model attraction and repulsion with distinct symmetric positive-definite kernels. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Focuses on point process sampling and formulation, not model compression or efficient serving. | |
| GIST: Generator-state-Informed Supervision for Tabular Foundation Models Proposes averaging query losses over generator states to improve pretraining sample efficiency in tabular foundation models. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Focuses on tabular foundation model pretraining loss, not small/efficient model deployment. | |
| Controlled-Minimax: Stabilizing Adversarial Optimization via Control Theory Applies continuous-time control theory to stabilize adversarial minimax optimization against rotational divergence. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Studies continuous-time GAN training stability, not small models or inference efficiency. | |
| Beyond Second-Order Information: Paid Logistic Regression with Noisy Features Analyzes online binary logistic regression where features are observed noisily subject to variable acquisition costs. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Covers feature acquisition costs in online learning, not efficient or small model inference. | |
| Sparse Dictionary Learning for Measure-Valued Data via Linearized Optimal Transport: Efficient Algorithms and Sample Complexity Studies dictionary learning on probability measures via linearized optimal transport embeddings and sparse autoencoders. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Focuses on mathematical measure embeddings rather than small or efficient language model serving. | |
| From Imbalance to Evidence: Deep Nonparametric Testing for Complex Data under Severe Sample Imbalance Proposes an imbalance-aware deep nonparametric two-sample test that leverages majority observations through repeated testing evidence. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Does not study model compression, small models, or efficient LLM inference. | |
| DataCupid: Stable Matching Repair for Training Data Acquisition with Delayed Feedback Develops a matching repair framework with theoretical performance guarantees for training data acquisition under delayed feedback. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Algorithmic matching repair under delayed feedback, not model compression or efficiency. | |
| Diffusion Precipitation Generation with Medium-range Weather Forecasting Employs a conditional diffusion model to generate observation-aligned precipitation forecasts from frozen weather foundation models. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Focuses on weather diffusion models, not small language models or efficient serving. | |
| NucleoNet: A Nuclear-Aware Determinant Ansatz for Multi-Geometry Neural Variational Monte Carlo Introduces a nuclear-aware determinant ansatz for multi-geometry neural-network variational Monte Carlo calculations. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Specialized architecture for molecular electronic structure, not general model compression. | |
| Scan-Parallel Variational Inference for event-driven Latent Jump Models Proposes scan-parallel variational inference for continuous-time latent jump models with state-dependent event intensities. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Deals with continuous-time state-space models and inference, not language model efficiency. | |
| Gaussian-Width Bounds for Offline-to-Online Linear Bandits Derives tighter regret bounds and algorithms for offline-to-online linear bandits using Gaussian concentration tools. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Theoretical analysis of linear bandits, unrelated to small language models or efficient serving. | |
| Evidential Multimodal Transformers with Dempster-Shafer Fusion for Emotion Recognition Introduces an evidential transformer using Dempster-Shafer fusion to quantify and handle epistemic and aleatoric multimodal emotion uncertainty. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Focuses on evidential transformers for emotion recognition, not model compression. | |
| Trajectory-Aware Policy Optimization: Closing the State Distribution Gap in Long-Horizon LLM RL Presents a policy optimization method that corrects state-distribution shift during long-horizon reinforcement learning with language models. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Focuses on RL policy optimization training dynamics, not model compression or serving. | |
| Low-Rank Kolmogorov-Arnold Generator Flows for Interpretable Operator Learning Introduces Kolmogorov-Arnold flow to learn physical operator generators using low-rank univariate function symbols. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Focuses on physics operator learning using Kolmogorov-Arnold flows, not small language models. | |
| Target-Constrained Pooling for Trajectory Extrapolation Proposes target-constrained pooling to improve trajectory extrapolation by combining complementary endpoint estimates from related source signals. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Proposes target-constrained pooling for time-series trajectories, not model compression. | |
| Towards Easier-to-Tune Training Algorithms: New Results from AlgoPerf Evaluates deep learning optimizers under a self-tuning fixed-hardware benchmark across nine distinct workloads. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Benchmark report on optimizer training efficiency, not small language models or efficient inference. | |
| Lightweight Time-Frequency Vibration Sensing for Consumer Device Condition Monitoring Presents a lightweight vibration sensing framework transforming time-series into time-frequency representations for edge deep learning monitoring. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Deploys tiny vision models for consumer vibration sensing, not language model efficiency. | |
| CB-Orchestrator: Adaptive Workflow Optimization for LLM Agents via Contextual Bandits Proposes a framework combining evolutionary candidate search and contextual bandits to optimize and select LLM agent workflows adaptively. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Optimizes agentic workflows via bandits, not small language models, quantization, or serving. | |
| Human and LLM Facilitation in Collaborative Design Meetings: A Computational Behavioral Comparison Compares human and Llama 3.1 8B facilitation turns across design meeting transcripts using multiple computational behavioral metrics. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Analyzes behavioral differences between human and LLM meeting facilitation, not model efficiency. | |
| Can Failed Trajectories Reveal Where Agents Go Wrong? Agentic Failure Attribution Without Step-Level Labels Proposes a spectral representation framework to attribute agent failures to specific decisive steps using only trajectory-level outcome labels. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Focuses on trajectory failure attribution for agents, not model efficiency or distillation. | |
| Scaling RNA Foundation Models through Iterative Refinement Presents a compact RNA foundation model utilizing learned iterative refinement to allow variable inference depth at fixed parameter scale. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Focuses on biological RNA modeling with iterative refinement, not general efficient LLM deployment. | |
| Why Heavy-Tailed Weight Spectra Predict Model Quality Provides a probabilistic marginal likelihood derivation explaining why heavy-tailed weight spectral metrics correlate with deep network generalization quality. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Investigates theoretical quality metrics from weight spectra, not model compression or efficiency. | |
| Fast Gradient-Based Approximation of Continuous Dynamic Time Warping Introduces fast gradient-based approximation schemes for continuous dynamic time warping to enable scalable, differentiable time series alignment. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Proposes a fast time-series alignment solver, not small or efficient language model methods. | |
| WaSA: Wavelet Scattering Autoencoders for Unsupervised Offline Detection of Malicious Clients in Federated Learning Uses wavelet scattering autoencoders to detect malicious client data updates offline in federated learning without requiring attack labels. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Focuses on malicious client detection in federated learning, not model compression or efficient serving. | |
| Prediction-Informed Landing Window Planning for UAV Landing on USV in High Sea States Develops a motion-prediction hierarchical control framework to plan safe touchdown windows for autonomous drone landings on surface vessels. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Addresses UAV/USV maritime control systems, not small language models or efficient AI serving. | |
| Verifiable Sampling for Delegated Generative Quantum Machine Learning Proposes a blind and verifiable sampling protocol for securely delegating quantum generative machine learning inference to remote servers. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Focuses on quantum generative model protocols, not small language models or efficient LLM serving. | |
| Tensor-based Fusion of Multi-modal Data for Predicting Cancer Risk Levels Applies tensor decomposition and clustering to fuse heterogeneous clinical and genomic datasets for unsupervised cancer risk prediction. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Focuses on clinical data clustering rather than small language models or LLM efficiency. | |
| Learning Schwarzschild Geodesic Motion with Lagrangian Neural Networks Introduces coordinate normalization and energy-constrained sampling to train Lagrangian neural networks on complex Schwarzschild geodesic dynamics. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Focuses on relativistic geodesic physics modeling, not small language models or model compression. | |
| Neural Surrogate Modeling of Ultrasonic Wave Propagation in Heterogeneous Media Combines Fourier neural operators with local-integral resampling in a U-Net to model high-frequency ultrasonic waves in heterogeneous media. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Addresses PDE wave equation surrogates, not small language models or efficient LLM inference. | |
| Data-Adaptive Mahalanobis Metric Learning for Cross-Head Attention in Transformers Generalizes multi-head attention by learning data-adaptive, full cross-head Mahalanobis metric matrices to capture inter-head feature interactions. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Introduces a general attention mechanism for model expressiveness, not model compression or efficiency serving. | |
| Recovering Irreducible Three-Body Interactions with Lagrangian Neural Networks Applies Lagrangian neural networks with targeted sampling to recover non-pairwise three-body dispersion interactions directly from trajectory data. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Investigates Lagrangian neural networks for three-body physics, not model compression or small language models. | |
| DAG Structure Learning with Node-Varying Heavy-Tailed Disturbances Presents a DAG structure learning method that jointly estimates graph structure and node-varying heavy-tailed disturbance parameters. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Focuses on statistical graph learning algorithms, unrelated to small or efficient language models. | |
| MORAD: Reinforcement Learning with Multi-Objective Rewards for RNA Inverse Design Introduces an online reinforcement learning framework optimizing multi-objective rewards across diverse target backbones for RNA inverse design. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Focuses on biological molecular generative modeling rather than efficient or small language models. | |
| Sustainable Cloud-Fog-Edge Systems for Smart Buildings: Algorithmic Adaptation under Memory Constraints and Dynamic Orchestration Strategies Presents an edge-computing architecture using low-cost hardware and adaptive algorithms to enable autonomous data management in smart buildings. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Focuses on general edge IoT computing architectures rather than small language models or LLM compression. | |
| JEPA-kMMVAE: CSI Prediction for Time-Varying Wireless Channels Combines joint-embedding predictive architecture with a Markov variational autoencoder to predict wireless channel state information under noisy observations. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Applies VAEs to telecommunications channel forecasting rather than efficient language model compression or serving. | |
| SBNO : Schrödinger Bridge Neural Operator for the Forward and Inverse Problems under Missing Information Introduces a Schrödinger bridge diffusion matching method to solve forward and inverse partial differential equation problems under sparse observations. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Focuses on solving partial differential equations with diffusion bridges, not small language models or LLM compression. |
2,101–2,160 of 2,430← PreviousNext →