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most citedMM1: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Multimodal LLM Pre-training

11 citations · 11 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.LG2026

Stepped MoE: Segment-Level Routing with Configurable Inference Complexity

Arnav Kundu, Zhaoyang Xu, Bairu Hou +3

Training large language models (LLMs) is resource-intensive, and adapting them for diverse deployment scenarios with varying computational constraints remains challenging. While el…

cs.DC2026

Parallel Track Transformers: Enabling Fast GPU Inference with Reduced Synchronization

Chong Wang, Nan Du, Tom Gunter +8

Efficient large-scale inference of transformer-based large language models (LLMs) remains a fundamental systems challenge, frequently requiring multi-GPU parallelism to meet string…

cs.CL2026

SPLA: Block Sparse Plus Linear Attention for Long Context Modeling

Bailin Wang, Dan Friedman, Tao Lei +1

Block-wise sparse attention offers significant efficiency gains for long-context modeling, yet existing methods often suffer from low selection fidelity and cumulative contextual l…

cs.LG2025

Towards Comprehensive Information-theoretic Multi-view Learning

Long Shi, Yunshan Ye, Wenjie Wang +4

Information theory has inspired numerous advancements in multi-view learning. Most multi-view methods incorporating information-theoretic principles rely an assumption called multi…

cs.LG2025

Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models: Tech Report 2025

Ethan Li, Anders Boesen Lindbo Larsen, Chen Zhang +395

We introduce two multilingual, multimodal foundation language models that power Apple Intelligence features across Apple devices and services: i a 3B-parameter on-device model opti…

cs.LG2025

AXLearn: Modular, Hardware-Agnostic Large Model Training

Mark Lee, Chang Lan, Tom Gunter +34

AXLearn is a production system which facilitates scalable and high-performance training of large deep learning models. Compared to other state-of-art deep learning systems, AXLearn…

cs.CL2025

IDEA Prune: An Integrated Enlarge-and-Prune Pipeline in Generative Language Model Pretraining

Yixiao Li, Xianzhi Du, Ajay Jaiswal +4

Recent advancements in large language models have intensified the need for efficient and deployable models within limited inference budgets. Structured pruning pipelines have shown…

cs.CL2025

Instruction-Following Pruning for Large Language Models

Bairu Hou, Qibin Chen, Jianyu Wang +6

With the rapid scaling of large language models (LLMs), structured pruning has become a widely used technique to learn efficient, smaller models from larger ones, delivering superi…

cs.CV2024

EC-DIT: Scaling Diffusion Transformers with Adaptive Expert-Choice Routing

Haotian Sun, Tao Lei, Bowen Zhang +5

Diffusion transformers have been widely adopted for text-to-image synthesis. While scaling these models up to billions of parameters shows promise, the effectiveness of scaling bey…

cs.CV2024★ 11 cited

MM1: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Multimodal LLM Pre-training

Brandon McKinzie, Zhe Gan, Jean-Philippe Fauconnier +29

In this work, we discuss building performant Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). In particular, we study the importance of various architecture components and data choices. T…

cs.CL2023

Learning to Skip for Language Modeling

Dewen Zeng, Nan Du, Tao Wang +4

Overparameterized large-scale language models have impressive generalization performance of in-context few-shot learning. However, most language models allocate the same amount of…