most citedDAPO: An Open-Source LLM Reinforcement Learning System at Scale

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12 papers

cs.DC2026

Kamera: Unified Position-Invariant Multimodal KV Cache for Training-Free Reuse

Bole Ma, Jan Eitzinger, Harald Koestler +1

Multimodal agents repeatedly re-examine the same video frames, UI screenshots, and rendered artifacts as their context window slides and reasoning iterates, yet every look-back re-…

cs.DC2026

Move the Query, Not the Cache: Characterizing Cross-Instance Latent Attention Redistribution Across GPU Fabrics

Bole Ma, Jan Eitzinger, Harald Köstler +1

Frontier LLMs increasingly decide what a query attends to with a sparse-attention indexer that picks a few KV-cache blocks per query: attention's unit is now a small, reusable chun…

cs.DC2026

Leyline: KV Cache Directives for Agentic Inference

Bole Ma, Jan Eitzinger, Harald Koestler

Modern KV cache management assumes the chatbot workload: prompts arrive once and the cache grows append-only, so prefix caching and forward-only eviction are correct by constructio…

cs.DC2026

The Illusion of Power Capping in LLM Decode: A Phase-Aware Energy Characterisation Across Attention Architectures

Bole Ma, Ayesha Afzal, Jan Eitzinger +1

Power capping is the standard GPU energy lever in LLM serving, and it appears to work: throughput drops, power readings fall, and energy budgets are met. We show the appearance is…

cs.DC2026

Irminsul: MLA-Native Position-Independent Caching for Agentic LLM Serving

Bole Ma, Jan Eitzinger, Harald Köstler

Agentic LLM workloads put bit-identical tokens at shifted positions every turn, voiding prefix caches at the first byte of divergence. Operators report cache-hit regressions rangin…

cs.DC2026

Diagnosing Overhead in Dispatch Operations: Cross-architecture Observatory

Bole Ma, Jan Eitzinger, Harald Koestler +1

AlltoAll dispatch is the dominant bottleneck of MoE expert parallelism, and the interconnect community has responded with four families of mitigations: predictive sample placement,…

cs.LG2025

Virtual Width Networks

Seed, Baisheng Li, Banggu Wu +115

We introduce Virtual Width Networks (VWN), a framework that delivers the benefits of wider representations without incurring the quadratic cost of increasing the hidden size. VWN d…

cs.AI2025

Truncated Proximal Policy Optimization

Tiantian Fan, Lingjun Liu, Yu Yue +20

Recently, test-time scaling Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional reasoning capabilities across scientific and professional tasks by generating long chains-of-…

cs.CL2025

Model Merging in Pre-training of Large Language Models

Yunshui Li, Yiyuan Ma, Shen Yan +23

Model merging has emerged as a promising technique for enhancing large language models, though its application in large-scale pre-training remains relatively unexplored. In this pa…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Seed1.5-Thinking: Advancing Superb Reasoning Models with Reinforcement Learning

ByteDance Seed, :, Jiaze Chen +267

We introduce Seed1.5-Thinking, capable of reasoning through thinking before responding, resulting in improved performance on a wide range of benchmarks. Seed1.5-Thinking achieves 8…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

VAPO: Efficient and Reliable Reinforcement Learning for Advanced Reasoning Tasks

Yu Yue, Yufeng Yuan, Qiying Yu +24

We present VAPO, Value-based Augmented Proximal Policy Optimization framework for reasoning models., a novel framework tailored for reasoning models within the value-based paradigm…

cs.LG2025★ 14 cited

DAPO: An Open-Source LLM Reinforcement Learning System at Scale

Qiying Yu, Zheng Zhang, Ruofei Zhu +32

Inference scaling empowers LLMs with unprecedented reasoning ability, with reinforcement learning as the core technique to elicit complex reasoning. However, key technical details…