Quantization & distillation

Edit-VAR: Taming Visual Autoregressive Model for Precise Video Editing

Chongbo Zhao, Jiangming Wang, Xilai Wang, Xinyu Wang, Jingyi Tang, Chunjie Hao, Pengjie Song, Yue Ma · Sep 2026 · arXiv

GUARD: Natural Forgetting in Large Reasoning Models via Guided Answer-Reasoning Distillation

Zeyu Yan, Guanghao Zhou, Minghui Qiu, Ming Gao, Cen Chen · Sep 2026 · arXiv

On Repulsive and Attractive Teachers: Separating Correctness from Behavior in Self-Distillation

Anton Baumann, Akmal Ashirmatov, Leo Schmidt-Traub, Frederike Lübeck, Jonas Hübotter, Thomas Kleine Buening, Andreas Krause · Sep 2026 · arXiv

ArenaFlow: From Trajectory Ranking to Hierarchical Credit Propagation for Open-Ended Agent RL

Qiang Zhang, Ruixue Ding, Fanrui Zhang, Xi Chen, Boli Chen, Shihang Wang, Yinfeng Huang, Yi Zheng, Pengjun Xie, Kaipeng Zhang, Jiawei Liu, Zheng-Jun Zha · Sep 2026 · arXiv

Multi-Domain Clustering via Measure Quantization

Rafael Pereira Eufrazio, Eduardo Fernandes Montesuma, Charles Casimiro Cavalcante · Sep 2026 · arXiv

TERMon: Detecting Persistent Behavioral Threats in Edge AI via Hardware-Native Ternary Runtime Monitor

Arish Sateesan, Edlira Dushku · Sep 2026 · arXiv

GEM-MPC: Balancing Exploration and Exploitation through Expert-Guided Planning

Alvaro Serra-Gomez, Thomas Moerland · Sep 2026 · arXiv

GestureFAR: Streaming Co-Speech Gesture Generation with Flow Autoregression

Pinxin Liu, Haiyang Liu, Jiahao Luo, Junhua Huang, Chunhao Zou, Luchuan Song · Sep 2026 · arXiv

GVPO++: Group Variance Policy Optimization for LLM Post-Training and On-Policy Distillation

Kaichen Zhang, Yuzhong Hong, Junwei Bao, Hongfei Jiang, Yang Song, Dingqian Hong, Hui Xiong · Sep 2026 · arXiv

FOCAL-VLA: Subtask-Guided Geometry Distillation and Implicit World Modeling for Vision-Language-Action Models

Zhiyuan Gao, Di Wen, Yanxiang Zhan, Mohammad Khoshnazar, Jeroen Schäfer, Kunyu Peng, Michael Beetz · Sep 2026 · arXiv

SpecQuant: Speculative Decoding with Multi-Parent Quantization for Adaptive LLM Inference

Harish KB, Jagadeeswaran M, Pradheep P, Yuvanesh S, Sivakumar T · Sep 2026 · arXiv

Calibrating Teacher--Student Discrepancy for On-Policy Distillation

Qiangqiang He, Jin Li, MingCai Chen · Sep 2026 · arXiv

RheoSampling: Resolving the One-Hot Dilemma in Stochastic Dynamic-Tree Speculative Decoding

Qiao Hu, Yepeng Weng, Bo Zhang, Takehisa Yairi · Sep 2026 · arXiv

ZYT-World: A Real-Time Controllable World Model for Closed-Loop Autonomous-Driving Simulation

Boni Hu, Xiong Wei, Haoming Huang, Yong Huang, Chenbo Wang, Yi Yang, Jiancheng Wang, Ruicheng Zhu, Zhimin Yang, Guanglai Liu, Qiaowan Jin, Dongzhuo Wang, Haiwei Kuang, Jiajun Fan, Yue Wu, Jiaxin Wei, Hao Sun, Feihong Yan, Wei Bi, Kaixuan Wang, Zichao Guo, Xiaozhi Chen · Sep 2026 · arXiv

PointLAM: Local Attentive Mamba for Efficient Point-based 3D Object Detection

Xuanming Shang, Weijia Zhang, Chao Ma · Sep 2026 · arXiv

Quantization-Aware Kalman Estimation for Diffusion Sampling

Qitan Shi, Cheng Jin, Jiawei Zhang, Yuantao Gu · Sep 2026 · arXiv

Understanding LLM Quantization through Activation-Guided Compensation and Orthogonal Residuals

Yamato Narita, Issei Sato · Sep 2026 · arXiv

QVAC Genesis III: A Large-Scale, High-Quality Open Synthetic STEM Corpus for Efficient Language Model Pre-Training

Davide Vitabile, N. Ranjan, Akshay Nambiar, Kamal K. Gupta, Amril Nazir · Sep 2026 · arXiv

QUALS: Corpus Equilibrium for Universal Forecasting via Pattern Quantization and Learnability Synchronization

Yujie Li, Zezhi Shao, Chengqing Yu, Yisong Fu, Weijie Zhu, Yifan Du, Jilin Hu, Bin Yang, Yongjun Xu, Fei Wang · Sep 2026 · arXiv

Intrinsic Sequence-Likelihood Confidence in Retrieval-Dominated Extractive QA: Two Pre-Specified Negatives, and What They Do and Do Not Attribute

Gunwoo Lee, Changmin Sung, Sang-Hwan Gwak, Ina Kim, Ji-Young Choi, Kyong-Ha Lee · Sep 2026 · arXiv

D-Quant: Driftable Entropy Coding for KV Cache Quantization

Yi Su, Hong Liu, Guanghua Yu, Jianchen Zhu · Sep 2026 · arXiv

Cross-Architecture Foundation-Model Distillation for Edge Flood Segmentation

Fabian Schmalstieg, Karsten Mueller, Wojciech Samek · Sep 2026 · arXiv

GS-PI: An Optimization-Decoupled Appearance Decomposition Approach for Generating PBR Gaussian Assets

Jieting Xu, Rengan Xie, Zijian Huang, Zehui Jin, Rui Wang, Yuchi Huo · Sep 2026 · arXiv

Layerwise Decoupling for Stable Structured Sparsification of Fully Connected Layers

Charles Kulick, Armenak Petrosyan, Sui Tang · Sep 2026 · arXiv

Score Centering Stabilizes Off-policy Reinforcement Learning

Martin Marek, Max Ryabinin · Sep 2026 · arXiv

Fingerprinting Multimodal Large Language Models

Chao Huang, Meng Tong, Kejiang Chen · Sep 2026 · arXiv

MAGMA-GEN: Validated Recovery Supervision from Ambiguous Failures via Counterfactual Re-Execution

Loan Bernat, Matthieu Grard, Ariane Herbulot, Florent Lamiraux · Sep 2026 · arXiv

Scaling Forced Alignment to End-User Devices

Lawry Sorenson, Michael Crandall, Eric K. Ringger, Stephen D. Richardson · Sep 2026 · arXiv

Socialized UAV Cross-Task Learning: Towards Cross-Granularity Collaboration through Hierarchical Interaction

Xinjie Yao, Ruipu Zhao, Yunqi Zhu, Zhihe Fan, Zhoupeng Guo, Weihao Li, Zhen Wang, Qilong Wang, Pengfei Zhu · Sep 2026 · arXiv

PhGS: Post-Hoc Pruning and Refinement of Single-View Feed-Forward 3D Gaussian Reconstructions

Rinto Yagawa, Han Cheng, Dieter Schmalstieg, Hideo Saito, Shohei Mori · Sep 2026 · arXiv

QCPruner: Query-Conditioned Population Coverage for Visual Token Pruning

Shengli He, Yongchao Liang, Roumeng He, Junjie Zeng, Jiyuan He, Can Wu, Li Zheng · Sep 2026 · arXiv

Beyond Depth Truncation: Controlled Evaluation of Depth Utilization in Recursive Language Models

Ha Van Dau, Thanh Tung Khuat, Nguyen Thanh Dung · Sep 2026 · arXiv

Video DeltaNet: A Video-Native Hybrid Attention for Livestream Video Generation

Haocheng Xi, Yiming Xie, Hexu Zhao, Yiwen Zhang, Michael Liu, Thomas Creavin, Kurt Keutzer, Xiuyu Li, Zhaoyang Lv, Chenfeng Xu, Haiwen Feng · Sep 2026 · arXiv

What Does Privileged Information Add to On-Policy Self-Distillation?

XiuYu Zhang, Wei Chow, Junfeng Fang, Xingyu Zhu, Zhenkai Liang, Tat-Seng Chua · Sep 2026 · arXiv

A Functional Pilot for Certified Freshness-Aware Semantic--Spatial Range Retrieval

Taimoor Ahmad · Sep 2026 · arXiv

DART: Distillation-Aware Reparameterization for Training-Free LoRA Reuse in Few-Step Video Diffusion Models

Shihong Li, Juntao Xu, JinCao, Maowen Tang, Jun Huang, Jintao Li · Sep 2026 · arXiv

MiX: Micro-Inverted-Scaling for End-to-End Low-Bit Vision-Language Model Acceleration

Yuan Liao, Jae-sun Seo · Sep 2026 · arXiv

RetireOPD: Self-Retiring On-Policy Distillation for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

Yan Yu, Zhengxi Lu, Yizhou Liu, Yichen Pan, Aozhe Wang, Qipeng Chen, Hua Yang, Wenqi Zhang, Weiming Lu, Qianglong Chen, Yongliang Shen · Sep 2026 · arXiv

NS3Learn: Transferring 5G NR Mode-2 Reception Realism from ns-3 to the Veins/SUMO Stack for Connected-Vehicle Safety Assessment

Rasheed Bello, Arthur Mukwaya, Gurcan Comert, Varghese Vaidyan, Vijay Bendigeri, Anthony Dontoh, Jagruti Sahoo, Judith Mwakalonge · Sep 2026 · arXiv

Enhanced Knowledge Distillation for Detection Transformer via Teacher Prediction Refinement

Yitong Xing, Yuhao Cheng, Yanping Li, Yichao Yan · Sep 2026 · arXiv

When EOS Tokens Disagree: Understanding Length Inflation in On-Policy Distillation

Yuxiao Yang, Tianrun Yu, Shangzhe Li, Kaixiang Zhao, Xuchao Zhang, Chetan Bansal, Huaxiu Yao, Taylor W. Killian, Weitong Zhang · Sep 2026 · arXiv

Predict Before You Deploy: Offline Prediction of Quantization-Induced Task Degradation for World Action Models

Jiuyi Xu, Jinjia Guo, Meida Chen, Jing Du, Yangming Shi · Sep 2026 · arXiv

Elastic Threshold Attention: Learned Contextual Sparsity for Long-Context Decoding

Themistoklis Haris, Henry Li, Maryam Karimzadehgan · Sep 2026 · arXiv

4D Radar Perception Algorithms for Autonomous Driving: A Review

Xumin Wu, Jun Zhou, Jilin Mei, Chen Min, Yu Hu · Sep 2026 · arXiv