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Dual-Slot: From Serial Loops to Parallel Slots in Language Models

Yiqin Hao, Zitong Wang, Boyi Zeng, He Li, Shixiang Song, Feichen Song · Oct 18, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 90% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics Math
  • Abstract shows limited direct human-feedback or evaluation-protocol detail; use as adjacent methodological context.
Open paper
PV-Decoding: Progressive Verification Decoding with Decode Gating for Diffusion Language Models

Renxi Liu, Yiming Li, Shengyin Sun, Chen Chen, Xian Wang, Shuai Yang · Oct 17, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 90% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics Math
  • Experiments on three diffusion language models across GSM8K, MBPP, and HumanEval show that PV-Decoding reduces sequential model forward passes (MFPs) by 8%--37% relative to confidence-based decoding, while keeping the largest observed…
Open paper
EdgeRock: Strong Reasoning at Constant Memory

Huishan Ji, Weiming Zhang, Qirui Ye, Jinchao Xu, Yike Guo, Hua Xu · Oct 7, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 90% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics General
  • Abstract shows limited direct human-feedback or evaluation-protocol detail; use as adjacent methodological context.
Open paper
Time-Anchored Diffusion Language Models: Latent-Space Caching for Fast Generation

Joel Anto Paul, Litu Rout, Aditya Akella, Sanjay Shakkottai · Sep 29, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 90% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics MathCoding
  • Applied to DiffusionGemma-26B, TADM:Post-train improves throughput by approximately 49% to 79% on several math, code, and STEM benchmarks (GSM8K, AIME26, GPQA-Diamond, LiveCodeBench-v6, HumanEval, MMLU-Pro).
Open paper
When Does Better Acceptance Pay? A Controlled Study of Speculative Decoding

Yongchao Long, Chunrui Zheng, Yuxuan Zhou, Guangkun Nie, Tian-Chi Ma, Chao Pang · Oct 18, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 87% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics General
  • We establish a comparison protocol spanning training, inference, and evaluation, remeasuring released checkpoints and retraining six drafter recipes on shared target-generated data across ten benchmarks and two target models.
Open paper
Cache2LoRA: Understanding and Improving Context Internalization

Yi Fang, Gaurav Srivastava, Zhenyu Bi, Sirui Ding, Xuan Wang · Oct 16, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 87% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics Medicine
  • Abstract shows limited direct human-feedback or evaluation-protocol detail; use as adjacent methodological context.
Open paper
ReaDy: Recurrent States as Dynamic Context for Speculative Drafting in Hybrid Linear Attention Large Language Models

Bohan Sun, Zunhai Su, Xialie Zhuang, Jianjin Li, Ngai Wong, Chuan-Wei Kuo · Oct 14, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 87% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics MathCoding
  • Across seven benchmarks spanning mathematics, code generation, and dialogue, ReaDy achieves an average 3.16\times decoding speedup over autoregressive decoding with Qwen3.8-27B on a single NVIDIA B200 GPU.
  • It outperforms DSpark on every benchmark, improving throughput by 7.97% and acceptance length by 8.50% on average.
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SquidAgent: Parallelize Wisely, Coordinate Efficiently

Yexiong Lin, Shanshan Ye, Yu Yao, Zhen Fang, Bo Han, Tongliang Liu · Oct 6, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 87% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
Long Horizon Coding
  • LLM-based agents solve complex multi-step tasks, but sequential execution incurs substantial latency.
  • Building on this token-based criterion, we propose SquidAgent.
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VisionWeave: Weaving Elastic Visual Representations as a Native Capability of MLLMs

Yuan Feng, Qize Yang, Ruizhe Chen, Sibo Song, Haolin He, Muzhi Zhu · Oct 6, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 87% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
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  • Based on Qwen3.8-27B, VisionWeave adaptively adjusts token savings to visual content, saving 43.0% tokens on average while retaining 98.9% native performance across eight benchmarks, versus only 88% performance preserved for token pruning…
  • Extensive evaluations confirm robust efficiency-quality trade-offs across diverse tasks, resolutions and video frames.
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Hybrid Latent Attention for Looped Language Models

Yuhan Chen, Siyuan Zhang, Nan Wang, Feiyang Kang, Ruoxi Jia · Oct 6, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 87% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics Math
  • HLA retains over 97% of the original accuracy on math, knowledge and reasoning benchmarks, and 96-100% on long-context retrieval up to 16K tokens.
Open paper
APEX: Speculate smarter, not deeper

Manvi Jha, Zach Zhang, Zhichao Xu, Linbo Liu, Sai Muralidhar Jayanthi, Vinayak Arannil · Oct 6, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 87% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
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  • Across the aggregate evaluation, APEX-S achieves 4.27X speedup, while APEX-B achieves 3.27X speedup with a 41.0% relative reduction in wasted-token percentage compared with fixed n-gram speculation at k=16, providing distinct operating…
Open paper
SpecFold: Folding Multi-Branch Redundancy for Faster Speculative Decoding in Diffusion Language Models

Chung-En Ho, Weiyu Sun, Cheng-Jhih Shih, He Li, Yong Liu, Yingyan Celine Lin · Oct 4, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 87% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
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  • Across two DLLM families, five models, and five standard benchmarks, SpecFold achieves up to 1.64x throughput over Spiffy and up to 1.99x over vanilla decoding, while maintaining comparable task performance.
Open paper
Tailoring the Quantization Space for 1-Bit KV Cache Compression

Minsoo Cheong, Donghyun Son, Sungjoo Yoo · Oct 2, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 87% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
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  • Across general, long-chain-of-thought reasoning, and long-context retrieval benchmarks, TaSQ consistently outperforms existing low-bit KV cache VQ baselines while preserving reasoning stability.
Open paper
Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 87% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics CodingMultilingual
  • On 1,283 human-gold test segments in seven languages, best measured redaction F1 is 88.8, against 69.1 for published GLiNER2 with 11 unrepresentable types excluded from its task (68.8 without that exemption), 67.8 for GLiNER2 adapted to the…
  • Adding about 50,000 annotated training sentences and increasing human-gold replay improves exact typed-span F1 from 74.5 to 76.3 on Ont3, our 31-type frontier-annotated NER evaluation of 1,201 development segments.
Open paper
KV-Kaizen: Learning Context-Adaptive Cache Compression Choices

Joao Monteiro, Louis Béthune, Anastasiia Filippova, Sonia Laguna, David Grangier, Marco Cuturi · Sep 29, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 87% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics General
  • In evaluations on instruction following and reasoning tasks, our selectors reach the Pareto frontier of accuracy against cache size, against learning-free and post-hoc baselines.
Open paper
KV-streams for Efficient Compaction in Agentic Reinforcement Learning

Emiliano Penaloza, Dane Malenfant, Dheeraj Vattikonda, Roger Creus Castanyer, Siddarth Venkatraman, Abhay Puri · Sep 28, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 83% Sparse protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
General
  • Scaling the horizon of agentic LLMs is bottlenecked by the need to fit ever longer context traces in GPU memory.
Open paper
AgSpec: Pushing the Limits of Retrieval-Based Speculative Decoding in Coding Agent Pipelines

Sumin Lee, Sukmin Cho, Seungjae Lim, Youngjin Kwon · Oct 1, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 90% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Fallback
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon Coding
  • Retrieval-based speculative decoding (SD) drafts tokens by copying continuations from existing text, which suits coding agents that repeatedly reproduce code, logs, and earlier attempts.
  • We present AgSpec, a framework that supplies the corpus and draft-length policies that existing retrieval engines lack in coding-agent pipelines.
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