2 papers
cs.DC2026
Guess-Verify-Refine: Data-Aware Top-K for Sparse-Attention Decoding on Blackwell via Temporal Correlation
Long Cheng, Ritchie Zhao, Timmy Liu +7
Sparse-attention decoders rely on exact Top-K selection to choose the most important key-value entries for each query token. In long-context LLM serving, this Top-K stage runs once…
cs.LG2026
AVO: Agentic Variation Operators for Autonomous Evolutionary Search
Terry Chen, Zhifan Ye, Bing Xu +20
Agentic Variation Operators (AVO) are a new family of evolutionary variation operators that replace the fixed mutation, crossover, and hand-designed heuristics of classical evoluti…