3 papers
cs.AI2026
Quantization Inflates Reasoning: Token Inflation as a Hidden Cost of Low-Bit Reasoning Models
Xinyu Lian, Walid Krichene, Beichen Huang +4
Quantization is widely used to reduce the inference cost of large language models, but its effect on reasoning models is not fully captured by final-answer accuracy or per-token la…
cs.LG2026
Private Learning with Public Feature Conditioning
Shuli Jiang, Walid Krichene, Nicolas Mayoraz
We study differentially private (DP) regression in settings where each data sample includes public, non-sensitive features -- common in applications such as recommendation and adve…
cs.LG2026
MAC-Attention: a Match-Amend-Complete Scheme for Fast and Accurate Attention Computation
Jinghan Yao, Sam Adé Jacobs, Walid Krichene +2
Long-context decoding in LLMs is IO-bound: each token re-reads an ever-growing KV cache. Prior accelerations cut bytes via compression, which lowers fidelity, or selection/eviction…