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Every paper checked in the week of 12–18 Oct 2026 · Small and efficient models — nothing is hidden. Brief papers first.
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| Looped Reasoning Finishes Earlier Than You Think This paper proposes a recurrent architecture that adds rotational degrees of freedom to prevent oscillatory bottlenecks in looped reasoning. Ranked #241New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Explores dynamic-depth looped architectures for faster and more efficient reasoning convergence. | |
| Support or Magnitude? Characterizing Neuron Relevance for Instruction Data Selection This paper examines neuron relevance characterization methods based on magnitude and distribution support for selecting instruction fine-tuning data. Ranked #242New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | On-topic Enables efficient instruction tuning by selecting high-value training samples via neuron relevance profiles. | |
| HaloBlock: Faster and Better Decoding for Diffusion Large Language Models HaloBlock allocates adaptive context halo regions across blocks to smooth context transitions and improve diffusion language model decoding. Ranked #243New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Improves inference decoding efficiency and speed for diffusion large language models. | |
| Heterogeneous Structured Pruning Under Resource Constraints for Hardware-Efficient Large Language Models Heterogeneous Structured Pruning selects sublayer-specific sparsity patterns guided by latency and memory models for hardware-efficient inference. Ranked #244New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | On-topic Proposes hardware-aware structured pruning for efficient on-device LLM deployment. | |
| Preserving Updates in Low-Bit Recurrent State Quantization This paper proposes a low-rank bypass to accumulate small updates and reduce compounding errors in quantized recurrent model states. Ranked #245New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | On-topic Proposes low-bit recurrent state quantization methods for efficient memory usage. | |
| Growing to See: Efficient Pretraining of Self-Supervised Vision Transformers The paper investigates progressive depth growth during self-supervised vision transformer pretraining to improve downstream accuracy while reducing computation. Ranked #246Surprising resultPreprint5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Reduces vision transformer pretraining FLOPs via progressive depth layer growth. | |
| Revisiting Error Feedback for Model Quantization This paper formulates a trace-minimization framework to design causal error-feedback coefficients for neural network weight quantization. Ranked #247Surprising resultPreprint5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | On-topic Investigates error feedback formulations to improve model quantization efficiency. | |
| Orthros: Phase-Aware Heterogeneous Attention for Efficient Transformers Proposes an attention mechanism that switches from linear complexity during prefilling to full attention during token decoding. Ranked #248New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | On-topic Introduces linear-complexity prefilling attention to dramatically improve Transformer efficiency. | |
| BoundaryEvo: Data-Model Co-Evolution at the Capability Boundary for Long-Chain Reasoning Distillation Proposes BoundaryEvo, dynamically adapting training data around a student model's evolving capability boundary during long-chain reasoning distillation. Ranked #249New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | On-topic Presents a knowledge distillation framework to improve reasoning in small language models. | |
| Towards Robust Calibration Dataset for Domain-General Mixture of Experts Pruning The paper studies how calibration dataset size, language, and data distribution affect post-training expert pruning in mixture-of-experts models. Ranked #250Surprising resultPreprint5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | On-topic Analyzes calibration dataset robustness for post-training expert pruning in MoE models. | |
| Overcoming Data Imbalances with Expert Selection Biases Proposes category-conditioned expert routing biases to mitigate data imbalance in mixture-of-experts language models. Ranked #251New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | On-topic Investigates expert routing and capacity allocation efficiency in Mixture-of-Experts architectures. | |
| Latent Core Tokenizer: Compress, but Meaningfully Introduces a multilingual tokenizer that uses structural discovery and linguistic constraints to improve downstream model representations. Ranked #252New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | On-topic Designs a compact, efficient tokenizer balancing compression and vocabulary representation. | |
| Poster: A Preliminary Study of LLM Distillation Inference Presents a hypothesis testing framework using shadow models to audit whether a language model was distilled from a proprietary teacher. Ranked #253New testPeer-reviewed5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | On-topic Investigates unauthorized LLM distillation inference and teacher-student behavior dynamics. | |
| A Step in the Right Place: Understanding and Optimizing Timestep Placement in Continuous Diffusion Language Models The paper introduces an algorithm to optimize denoising timestep placement in continuous diffusion language models to improve generation quality. Ranked #254Surprising resultPreprint5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | On-topic Optimizes denoising timesteps to enable efficient 16-step parallel text generation. | |
| Compute-Optimal Scaling Laws for Spiking Language Models The paper presents an empirical scaling law study measuring parameter and compute trade-offs in spiking neural network language models. Ranked #255New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | On-topic Characterizes compute-optimal scaling for energy-efficient spiking language models. | |
| Sea-Net: A Small and Inherently Interpretable Neural Network for Time Series Classification This paper presents a lightweight, interpretable neural network architecture for resource-constrained time-series classification on microcontrollers. Ranked #256Surprising resultPreprint5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | On-topic Proposes a lightweight neural architecture designed for resource-constrained micro-controller deployment. | |
| How Many Ranks Does a Token Need? A Noise-Floor Squelch for Rank-One LoRA Experts The paper introduces a router-free method that adaptively thresholds rank-one LoRA adapter responses to remove cross-talk noise per token. Ranked #257New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | On-topic Introduces input-dependent rank selection for LoRA to adaptively sparsify and improve parameter efficiency. | |
| DPA-MoE: A Runtime Precision Control Framework for MoE Inference Introduces a dynamic precision control framework that allocates weight chunks to mixture-of-experts models during inference. Ranked #258New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Introduces dynamic precision control and quantization for efficient MoE inference and serving. | |
| Tiny Recursive Message Passing This paper applies recursive training and discrete deduction procedures to message-passing neural networks to solve constraint-reasoning tasks with few parameters. Ranked #259Surprising resultPreprint5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Achieves high reasoning accuracy with tiny 16k parameter models that train in minutes. | |
| Monitoring latent reasoning in looped language models This paper presents an interpretability protocol to monitor latent reasoning dynamics and stability across multiple looped language model families. Ranked #260New testPreprint5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Evaluates parameter-efficient looped architectures that reuse weights for computation. | |
| Towards Green AI: Evaluating Energy Efficiency for Quantized LLM Inference The paper evaluates the energy efficiency, carbon intensity, and accuracy of ten post-training quantization methods across various language models and GPUs. Ranked #261New testPreprint5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Provides a comprehensive evaluation of energy efficiency and latency for quantized LLM inference. | |
| Compute-optimal data scaling for neural surrogates via multi-fidelity training The paper demonstrates multi-fidelity training to optimize data generation compute and error scaling for neural PDE surrogates. Ranked #262Surprising resultPreprint5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Analyzes compute-optimal data scaling and multi-fidelity efficiency in simulation models. | |
| Personalized LLM Recommendation with Semantic IDs: Autoregressive Beam Search vs. Multi-Token Prediction The paper compares single-head autoregressive beam search with parallel multi-token prediction for generating semantic IDs in recommendation systems. Ranked #263Surprising resultPreprint5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Studies multi-token prediction to substantially reduce decoding latency and inference costs. | |
| Shaping Latent Mixture-of-Experts: From Expert Geometry to Layerwise Capacity Allocation The paper studies expert width and dimension balance in latent mixture-of-experts architectures to optimize parameter capacity across model layers. Ranked #264New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Optimizes mixture-of-experts geometry and capacity allocation for efficient model computation. | |
| CB-Agent: Concept-Based In-Context Learning for Sequential Action Selection The paper presents an in-context learning method that extracts compact concept vectors from demonstrations to guide sequential action choices for agents. Ranked #265New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Reduces prompt context consumption by encoding trajectories into compact concept vectors. | |
| SP$^2$ec: Adaptive Self-Speculative Decoding for Vision-Language Models The paper presents an adaptive, training-free speculative decoding method to speed up inference for vision-language models. Ranked #266Surprising resultPreprint5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | On-topic Accelerates multimodal model inference using an adaptive self-speculative decoding bandit algorithm. | |
| Two For The Price Of One: Curvature-Aware Pruning Preserves Influence Functions Too This paper introduces CACTUS, an ADMM-based optimizer that speeds up curvature-aware pruning and preserves influence functions in compressed language models. Ranked #267New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | On-topic Presents an efficient optimizer for post-training LLM pruning and sparse decomposition to reduce deployment overhead. | |
| Rationale Distribution Distillation via Flow Matching for Distributional Continuous Latent Reasoning This paper presents a flow matching method to distill diverse continuous latent reasoning distributions from multiple chain-of-thought rationales. Ranked #268New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | On-topic Compresses lengthy chain-of-thought reasoning into compact latent sequences via distillation for faster generation. | |
| Selective Reasoning for Typed Decision Models: When to Start, Read, and Stop The paper proposes an interface for typed decision models that selectively invokes and interrupts reasoning to balance accuracy and latency. Ranked #269New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | On-topic Reduces inference pipeline time and output token work via dynamic reasoning interruption. | |
| Learning to Compute Is Not Learning to Retain or Reuse in Looped Transformers Investigates why looped transformers fail to retain or reuse earlier correct intermediate states when extended past training depth. Ranked #270Surprising resultPreprint5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | On-topic Analyzes computation reuse and retention limits in parameter-efficient looped transformers. | |
| TIPS: A Tiny Inference-time Policy for Scaling in Diffusion Language Models The paper presents a tiny learned policy controller to optimize token unmasking and remasking schedules in diffusion language models. Ranked #271Surprising resultPreprint5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Introduces a tiny controller to improve inference-time computational efficiency for diffusion models. | |
| Router Drift Control: Mitigating Off-Policy Degradation in Mixture-of-Experts Reinforcement Learning The paper proposes filtering high-drift responses to mitigate off-policy degradation in mixture-of-experts reinforcement learning. Ranked #272Surprising resultPreprint5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Improves training efficiency and stability for mixture-of-experts architectures. | |
| Does On-Policy Distillation Need to Complete Every Rollout? The paper introduces a method that accelerates on-policy knowledge distillation by truncating student rollouts and applying inverse-probability weighting. Ranked #273New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Accelerates on-policy distillation to make student model training more computationally efficient. | |
| Fractional Power-of-Two Quantization for Efficient and Effective Multiplier-Free LLM Inference Proposes a fractional power-of-two quantization grid to enable efficient multiplier-free integer inference for large language models. Ranked #274New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Introduces fractional power-of-two 4-bit quantization for multiplier-free, efficient inference. | |
| EigDiff: Eigensample Diffusion - or how to significantly reduce training dataset size with marginal performance variation? The paper uses latent eigenvectors from CLIP to select smaller, representative training datasets for diffusion models. Ranked #275New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Focuses on reducing training data and compute overhead to make training efficient. | |
| The Right Byte First: How UTF-16 Helps Multilingual Boundary Prediction Studies how using UTF-16 byte order improves boundary prediction and representation efficiency in multilingual byte-level language models. Ranked #276Surprising resultPreprint5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Improves byte-level encoding efficiency and boundary prediction for smaller language models. | |
| From Long Context to Selective Memory:A Survey of Memory-Centric Compression for Large Language Models The paper surveys memory-centric compression techniques for managing inference resources and context windows in large language models. Ranked #277New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Surveys inference-time KV-cache compression and memory-efficient resource management. | |
| Coordination-Free Workload Regularization for Variable-Cost Distributed Training The paper proposes a rank-local data-loading policy that rebalances variable-cost training batches without cross-node coordination to speed up distributed training. Ranked #278Surprising resultPreprint5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18 | On-topic Proposes workload regularization to speed up distributed training and reduce GPU idle time. | |
| Compatibility Matters: A Framework for Token-Level Teacher Selection in On-Policy Distillation The authors propose a theoretical and empirical framework to route token-level teacher selection during on-policy student distillation. Ranked #279New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18 | On-topic Proposes a token-level teacher selection framework to improve on-policy distillation efficiency. | |
| Selection-Safe Conformal Early Exit: Distribution-Free Coverage under Adaptive Depth This paper presents a pathwise conformal prediction method that guarantees valid coverage across adaptive early-exit stopping policies without multi-exit score inflation. Ranked #280New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18 | On-topic Develops a safe early-exit method to accelerate neural network inference with coverage guarantees. | |
| Minions: A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices Presents a distributed system architecture aggregating idle Apple Silicon devices into a virtual GPU cloud for inference. Ranked #281New way to see a problemPreprint4/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | On-topic Focuses on efficient inference serving across idle distributed consumer hardware. | |
| Understanding Mamba-3 Through Oscillatory Dynamics Analyzes Mamba-3's input-dependent state rotations as oscillatory dynamics to explain their utility for tracking states and long-context language modeling. Ranked #282New way to see a problemPreprint4/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | On-topic Studies Mamba-3 recurrent architectures for efficient long-context sequence modeling. | |
| A Categorical Atlas of Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning: Cones, Orbits, and Gauges Develops a category-theoretic framework to analyze and compare parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods as smooth maps in weight space. Ranked #283New way to see a problemPreprint4/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | On-topic Provides theoretical analysis of parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods for foundation models. | |
| Rounding in Preconditioner Space: Redesigning 4-bit AdamW Optimizer-State Quantization This paper redesigns 4-bit AdamW optimizer-state quantization by performing stochastic rounding directly within preconditioner space. Ranked #284New way to see a problemPreprint4/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | On-topic Redesigns 4-bit AdamW optimizer-state quantization to significantly reduce memory during training. | |
| Rethinking the Roles of Diffusion and Decoding: Predictive-State Flows for Parallel Language Generation Proposes separating continuous diffusion language generation into high-level flow-generated predictive states and block-level autoregressive token decoding. Ranked #285New way to see a problemPreprint4/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | On-topic Reduces sequential generation depth to enable faster parallel inference. | |
| Double-Take: Improving Capacity, Binding, and Selectivity In Long-Context Within Bidirectional Memory Introduces Double-Take to mitigate capacity and cross-position binding failures in long-context test-time training architectures. Ranked #286New way to see a problemPreprint4/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29 | On-topic Addresses efficient long-context retention and memory scaling via test-time training. | |
| Coarse-Graining Recursive Expert Computation: Continuation-Relative Interfaces and Failure Modes The paper introduces an evaluation framework to measure the trade-off between task quality and computation cost when replacing iterative neural modules. Ranked #287New way to see a problemPreprint4/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Focuses on coarse-graining computation to replace expensive neural network sequences with cheaper modules. | |
| ReSFlow: Rectifying Categorical Flows on Statistical Manifolds for One-Step Generation Introduces ReSFlow, rectifying categorical flows along geodesic trajectories on statistical manifolds to enable one-step discrete generation. Ranked #288New way to see a problemPreprint4/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | On-topic Enables one-step categorical generation, drastically cutting multi-step inference compute costs. | |
| RAMP: Recurrent Adaptive Mixed Precision for Efficient Prefill in Recurrent-Depth Language Models Analyzes quantization error propagation in recurrent-depth language models and proposes adaptive mixed-precision schedules for faster prefill inference. Ranked #289New way to see a problemPreprint4/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | On-topic Introduces adaptive mixed-precision quantization to lower inference and prefill compute costs. | |
| Vision-Predictor-Action: Towards Efficient Embodied AI via Neuro-Symbolic JEPA Predictors The paper proposes a robot control framework using predictive architectures and flow matching to generate action chunks without autoregressive decoding. Ranked #290New way to see a problemPreprint4/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | On-topic Proposes a lightweight non-autoregressive architecture under 20M parameters for fast, efficient embodied AI control. | |
| Error Correction in Trained TTT Layers This paper analyzes prediction-derived error updates and test-time gradient objectives in trained test-time-training layers. Ranked #291Surprising resultPreprint4/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | On-topic Analyzes fast-weight test-time training layers designed for efficient sequence processing. | |
| On the Depth Transfer of Neural Optimizers via L-Smoothness The paper analyzes depth transfer of hyperparameters in neural networks using an L-smoothness theoretical framework. Ranked #292New way to see a problemPreprint4/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | On-topic Provides theoretical methods for scaling neural network depth and hyperparameter transfer efficiently. | |
| Outcome-Routed Distillation and Reinforcement Learning for Diffusion Language Models The paper presents an outcome-routed distillation and reinforcement learning method tailored for training mixture-of-experts diffusion language models. Ranked #293New way to see a problemPreprint4/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | On-topic Introduces outcome-routed distillation and reinforcement learning to improve diffusion language model efficiency. | |
| One Block Ahead: Promoting Sampler State in Diffusion Language Models The paper proposes a decoding algorithm that denoises consecutive blocks concurrently by promoting sampler states in diffusion language models. Ranked #294Surprising resultPreprint4/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | On-topic Improves diffusion language model serving efficiency and throughput via concurrent block decoding. | |
| Rethinking Routing Exploration in Modern Mixture-of-Experts The authors propose MirrorMoE to reconcile an exploration dilemma between fine-grained expert segmentation and shared experts in mixture-of-experts models. Ranked #295New way to see a problemPreprint4/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Investigates expert routing efficiency and architecture design in Mixture-of-Experts models. | |
| WUSPruner: Second-Moment-Optimal Transforms for Structured Pruning This paper presents a transform-based framework for structured pruning in language models that optimizes basis selection using activation and weight statistics. Ranked #296New way to see a problemPreprint4/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | On-topic Presents a structured pruning framework to make LLMs more efficient to run. | |
| A Few More Tokens Ahead: Reinforcing Parallelism in Diffusion LLMs RePara trains diffusion language models using group-relative reinforcement learning on short token blocks to improve math generation speed and accuracy. Ranked #297New way to see a problemPreprint4/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Improves parallel generation and reduces inference and training costs in diffusion LLMs. | |
| TabGift: A Context-Efficient Foundation Model for Tabular Data Generation The paper proposes a context-efficient foundation model for generating realistic tabular data from limited context observations. Ranked #298New way to see a problemPreprint4/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Focuses on context-efficient tabular generation from few observations and compact latent representations. | |
| Before Attention Sinks Form: Hidden-State Geometry Reveals and Modulates Their Formation The paper analyzes pre-sink hidden-state geometry to detect and modulate attention sink formation in language models. Ranked #299Surprising resultPreprint4/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Analyzes attention sink formation mechanisms that impact long-context streaming inference efficiency. | |
| From Spectral to Frobenius: When Muon Loses Its Spectral Implicit Bias The paper analyzes the mathematical implicit bias of practical Muon optimization compared to gradient descent on linearly separable classification problems. Ranked #300Surprising resultPreprint4/10 suggested | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | On-topic Analyzes the behavior and implementation mechanics of the efficient Muon optimizer. |
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