HSVDQuant is presented, a unified framework modeling low-rank-assisted W4A4 PTQ as a coupled calibration problem and deriving optimization-based solvers from the joint objective, which achieves better W4A4 performance with substantially lower rank and quantization cost.
A fundamental question in neural network architecture optimization is whether the minimum hidden-neuron count required to approximate a target function within a prescribed tolerance can be computed efficiently. This paper resolves this question for two-hidden-layer ReLU networks under an $L^p(\mathbb{R}^d,\mathbb{R}^m)...
Conditional diffusion models generate diverse, novel, and high-quality samples under prescribed conditions. However, theoretical understanding of their memorization and generalization remains limited, while recent works have characterized these behaviors primarily in unconditional settings. In this work, we analyze a r...
Learned representations can lose latent degrees of freedom successively, suggesting a cascade of transitions whose underlying stability principle remains unclear. Here we formulate dimension-wise posterior collapse in variational autoencoder (VAE) as a fluctuation theory around partially collapsed states. Interpreting...
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A local recovery guarantee for teachers sufficiently close to the initial student in a shared parameterization under regularity conditions is proved, offering a conditional explanation for the success of self-RL teachers in the authors' experiments.
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KV-cache entries are stored before their future queries are known, but each decoding query needs precision in different places. We study this mismatch using separate budgets for retained bits and bits fetched per query. ReadKV stores each key and value in a progressive code whose prefixes support different reconstructi...
Siddharth Bhandari, Lucas Gretta, K. Balasubramanian et al.· 0 citations
Low-cost sensors enable scalable indoor air quality monitoring but require calibration because of nonlinear distortions, noise, and temporal drift. The conventional strict pairwise calibration setting requires a co-located reference sensor at each deployment location and does not account for spatial and temporal hetero...
Jinyong Yun, Seokho Ahn, Hyungjin Kim et al.· 0 citations
Time series forecasting aims to predict future values from historical observations and auxiliary features. We propose \textbf{SteerCast}, a retrieval-based latent steering method that improves decoder-only forecaster at inference time, without updating its parameters. SteerCast constructs a database from the training s...
Van Dai Do, Huu Hiep Nguyen, Minh Hoang Nguyen et al.· 0 citations
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated strong potential for sequential recommendation through their ability to reason over complex multimodal data. However, existing approaches either rely solely on the target user's own interaction history, neglecting collaborative signals from neighboring users, o...
Jason Marcell Setiadi, Xin Cao, Lina Yao· 0 citations
Diffusion and autoregression (AR) have long been seen as different categories of generative models, with diffusion specialising in continuous fields and AR specialising in discrete tokens. Recent work seeks to combine the advantages of the two models, and each hybrid fixes its decoding schedule by design. In this paper...
KV-cache quantization and linear attention are two representative approaches to tackling the storage and computational costs of Transformers. KV-cache quantization compresses individual KV entries into discrete codes but retains all entries, whereas linear attention recurrently aggregates multiple historical KV contrib...
Kai-Cheng Xiao, Li-Ran Dong, Hao-Tian Li et al.· 0 citations
Flat loss landscapes have long been linked to better generalization in neural networks. However, its role as a causal mechanism for generalization is less established. Grokking provides an unique testbed to understand this distinction: models are prone to fit observed data using non-generalizing structure and remain in...
Professor Paris Smaragdis develops computers with superhuman hearing for applications like speech recognition, music understanding, and environmental monitoring.
MIT News · Artificial Intelligence· news.mit.eduOct 27, 2026
Prabha Jha used her experience with MIT Open Learning’s program for senior executives to develop AI solutions for her employer, Verizon, and to write a book.
Assistant Professor Benjamin Lindquist studies how engineers deliberately injected randomness into early AI, giving rise to deep-learning models that sometimes hallucinate.