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most citedEthos: Rectifying Language Models in Orthogonal Parameter Space

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cs.CR2026

Agent Harness Distillation: Inference-Time Harness Extraction and Exploitation in Autonomous Multi-Agent Systems

Yu Cui, Wuli Yang, Yirui Shi +4

Autonomous multi-agent systems (AMAS) built on large language models (LLMs), such as Hermes, increasingly rely on inference-time harnesses to coordinate reasoning and action. Const…

cs.AI2026

Bidirectional Context Self-Distillation for Reinforcement Learning of Skill-Based LLM Agents

Tianjun Pan, Yuan Li, Hongda Wang +8

External natural-language skills provide large language model (LLM) agents with reusable and editable guidance for solving complex tasks. Yet their effectiveness depends not only o…

cs.AI2026

Segment-Aligned Policy Optimization for Multi-Modal Reasoning

Lei Gao, Zhuoming Li, Mengxi Jia +4

Existing reinforcement learning approaches for Large Language Models typically perform policy optimization at the granularity of individual tokens or entire response sequences. How…

cs.CR2026

Infrastructure for Valuable, Tradable, and Verifiable Agent Memory

Mengyuan Li, Lei Gao, Haoxuan Xu +5

Every API token you spend is your accumulated wealth; once you can prove its value and the effort behind it, you can resell it. As autonomous agents repeatedly call models and tool…

cs.DC2025

Striking the Right Balance between Compute and Copy: Improving LLM Inferencing Under Speculative Decoding

Arun Ramachandran, Ramaswamy Govindarajan, Murali Annavaram +4

With the skyrocketing costs of GPUs and their virtual instances in the cloud, there is a significant desire to use CPUs for large language model (LLM) inference. KV cache update, o…

cs.LG2025

DuetServe: Harmonizing Prefill and Decode for LLM Serving via Adaptive GPU Multiplexing

Lei Gao, Chaoyi Jiang, Hossein Entezari Zarch +3

Modern LLM serving systems must sustain high throughput while meeting strict latency SLOs across two distinct inference phases: compute-intensive prefill and memory-bound decode ph…

cs.CR2025

DistilLock: Safeguarding LLMs from Unauthorized Knowledge Distillation on the Edge

Asmita Mohanty, Gezheng Kang, Lei Gao +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong performance across diverse tasks, but fine-tuning them typically relies on cloud-based, centralized infrastructures. This requ…

cs.CL2025

DELTA: Dynamic Layer-Aware Token Attention for Efficient Long-Context Reasoning

Hossein Entezari Zarch, Lei Gao, Chaoyi Jiang +1

Large reasoning models (LRMs) achieve state-of-the-art performance on challenging benchmarks by generating long chains of intermediate steps, but their inference cost is dominated…

cs.LG2025

MARché: Fast Masked Autoregressive Image Generation with Cache-Aware Attention

Chaoyi Jiang, Sungwoo Kim, Lei Gao +3

Masked autoregressive (MAR) models unify the strengths of masked and autoregressive generation by predicting tokens in a fixed order using bidirectional attention for image generat…

cs.CL2025

DEL: Context-Aware Dynamic Exit Layer for Efficient Self-Speculative Decoding

Hossein Entezari Zarch, Lei Gao, Chaoyi Jiang +1

Speculative Decoding (SD) is a widely used approach to accelerate the inference of large language models (LLMs) without reducing generation quality. It operates by first using a co…

cs.LG2024

KVPR: Efficient LLM Inference with I/O-Aware KV Cache Partial Recomputation

Chaoyi Jiang, Lei Gao, Hossein Entezari Zarch +1

Inference for Large Language Models (LLMs) is computationally demanding. To reduce the cost of auto-regressive decoding, Key-Value (KV) cache is used to store intermediate activati…

cs.LG2024

MobiZO: Enabling Efficient LLM Fine-Tuning at the Edge via Inference Engines

Lei Gao, Amir Ziashahabi, Yue Niu +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) are currently pre-trained and fine-tuned on large cloud servers. The next frontier is LLM personalization, where a foundation model can be fine-tuned w…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Ethos: Rectifying Language Models in Orthogonal Parameter Space

Lei Gao, Yue Niu, Tingting Tang +2

Language models (LMs) have greatly propelled the research on natural language processing. However, LMs also raise concerns regarding the generation of biased or toxic content and t…