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  • Dynamic model and policy routing for general-purpose AI1 paper raises it · 1 addresses it

    Balancing performance and computational cost across diverse tasks and modalities is critical for scalable AI systems.

    • Route Anything: A Study of Model and Policy Routing for General-Purpose AI Systemsraises · addresses
  • Cross-repository consistency in coding agents1 paper raises it · 0 address it

    Real-world software development often requires coordinated changes across interdependent repositories, which current agents struggle to maintain.

    • CrossSWE: Benchmarking Cross-Repository Joint Development for Coding Agentsraises
  • Efficient long-video generation with consistent quality1 paper raises it · 1 addresses it

    Real-time streaming video generation demands continuous output without quality degradation or camera drift.

    • Wave Forcing: Towards Speed-of-Light Streaming Video Generationraises · addresses
  • Local decision-making for reasoning compression1 paper raises it · 1 addresses it

    Reducing inference costs without sacrificing accuracy requires models to know when to stop reasoning.

    • Think Less, Locally: Local Preference Learning for Reasoning Compressionraises · addresses
  • Unified taxonomy and coordination for agentic systems1 paper raises it · 1 addresses it

    Fragmented terminology and rapid growth in agentic systems hinder systematic understanding and collaboration.

    • Advances in Agentic Computer Graphicsraises · addresses

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  • arXiv cs.MAOct 2

    Turnover-Orthogonal Credit Assignment for Open-Team Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Amit Thakur, Mukesh Singhal

    Open-team multi-agent reinforcement learning studies cooperative systems in which agents may join, leave, or be replaced during an episode. In such settings, the team return changes both because agents choose useful actions and because the active population itself changes. Standard centralized critics and shared advantages often mix these two effects into one scalar credit signal, allowing surviving agents to be rewarded or penalized for exogenous turnover events outside their control. We introduce turnover-orthogonal credit assignment (TOCA), a value decomposition for open teams that separates action effects, pure turnover effects, and action--turnover interactions. Under exogenous turnover, the event-conditioned value admits a centered decomposition whose event-conditioned baseline removes the pure turnover component while preserving credit for actions that make the team robust to future replacements. We instantiate this idea with a permutation-invariant centralized critic over variable-size agent sets and event tokens, and derive both a counterfactual per-agent credit signal and a softly weighted interaction variant, TOCA-$β$, for high-variance control environments. Controlled…

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  • arXiv cs.LGOct 2

    Understanding Enrichment in Reinforcement Learning

    Jinwoo Kim, Shraddha Barke

    When rewards are sparse, reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) often uses hints or intermediate guidance to generate more successful rollouts. This enrichment biases policy-gradient updates unless corrected via importance weights, but existing methods omit correction or truncate importance weights in order to avoid the high variance of correction. It thus remains unclear what exactly is gained or lost in RLVR by correcting enriched rollouts. We show, mathematically, that omitted or truncated correction implicitly reweights the defined reward, and we decompose the resulting gradient error into scale, rotation, and variance to explain their distinct effects on learning. To make correction practical, we develop a novel sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) weight correction mechanism that, under stability and particle-order assumptions, tempers the exponential compounding of standard correction variance over the length of a sample to an additive accumulation. We then apply our analysis of enrichment to interpreting the results of a fine-tune of Qwen3-1.7B on a sparse band of OpenMathReasoning, establishing a concrete mechanism of how enrichment, both corrected and…

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  • arXiv cs.AIOct 2

    DNAlign: Dynamic Null-Space Safe Alignment for LLMs

    Jisheng Dang, Yushuo Zhao, Dewei Liu, Junfeng Fang, Bimei Wang +4

    Ensuring the safe and reliable deployment of large language models (LLMs) remains a fundamental challenge. Existing safety alignment approaches either incur high computational cost or unintentionally disrupt the model's core knowledge, leading to degraded fluency and factual accuracy on benign tasks. This reveals a persistent trade-off between safety and utility. We propose DNAlign, a lightweight alignment framework that integrates control-theoretic optimization with null-space projection. By treating the LLM as a dynamic system, the proposed framework introduces controllable perturbations to steer generation toward safe behavior. A key component is the projection module, which restricts these perturbations to the harmful-related subspace derived from neutral hidden states, thereby preserving general knowledge and response quality. A value function trained on human preference data adaptively optimizes the control signals to align with human safety preferences. Extensive evaluations across multiple LLM backbones demonstrate that our framework consistently reduces harmful outputs while maintaining fluency, coherence, and factual utility. It achieves superior overall performance…

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  • arXiv cs.CLOct 2

    How Robust Is Multimodal Claim Verification to LLM Rewriting?

    Yun-Ang Wu, Xanh Ho, Andre Greiner-Petter, Sunisth Kumar, Tian Cheng Xia +2

    LLMs are known to introduce stylistic changes into generated text, yet how these stylistic shifts affect model decisions on scientific tasks remains underexplored. In this paper, we focus on multimodal claim verification, where the goal is to determine whether a textual claim is grounded in a given piece of evidence. We apply two rewriting strategies: natural rewriting, which simulates how researchers routinely use LLMs to polish academic text, and controlled injection, which inserts a single LLM-associated word to isolate the effect of vocabulary choice. We evaluate 11 open-weight models spanning five VLM families and ranging from 2B to 38B parameters. We find that models are robust to these modifications: most show no significant drop in accuracy, and compared to prior work on review-score manipulation, verification appears far more stable. However, consistent probability shifts do occur. Hedging-oriented conditions produce significant shifts across nearly all models, while boosting conditions show a weaker effect and general polishing conditions (e.g., grammar correction, fluency improvement) have little effect.

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  • arXiv cs.ROOct 2▲ 64

    PointWAM: 3D World Action Modeling for Dexterous Robotic Manipulation

    Chunghyun Park, Beomjun Kim, Seungcheol Park, Heeseung Kwon, Yashu Shukla +3

    World action models jointly learn to forecast world dynamics and predict robot actions, such that the learned internal world dynamics guide accurate actions. Existing approaches typically represent the world as RGB frames or latent counterparts while predicting actions as end-effector poses or joint angles, but they often struggle to capture the 3D spatial structure and contact geometry central to dexterous manipulation. We introduce Point World Action Model (PointWAM), a 3D world action model that decomposes the world into a scene (i.e., environment) and hands (i.e., actor), and jointly forecasts both as 3D point trajectories within a shared space-time coordinate frame. This explicit, disentangled representation enables effective pre-training on large-scale human demonstration videos without requiring any task-specific object or keypoint selection. Given a colored point cloud and a language instruction, PointWAM predicts how the scene and hands co-evolve in 3D space over time, then retargets the forecast hand motion to robot actions. Pre-training on human videos improves average DexJoCo success by 56.9 percentage points, and scene-trajectory supervision adds 10.9 points over…

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  • arXiv cs.LGOct 2

    To Explore The Strange New World Beyond Data Distribution: System Behavior, Causality Tax, and Non-causal Base Model

    Xianzhi Zeng, Jiangneng Li, Gao Cong

    We show that the causality of language models (LMs) may not be necessary nor optimal. This is the case when system behavior (denoted as $S$) is incorporated as a first-principle Bayesian feature. Here, $S$ refers to extra dominant factors beyond the data space, and they involve coupled effects. Despite being the de facto foundation of modern architecture, recent studies indicate persistent mismatches and contradictions with causality. These issues largely stem from system behavior rather than the data distribution. We therefore propose the SBD framework, which incorporates $S$ as an irreducible component of the evidence lower bound (ELBO). SBD theoretically reveals a counter-intuitive Causality Tax phenomenon, where causality emerges as a suboptimal approximation with an additional structural error, due to the obliviousness to $S$. To address the challenge of latent variable analysis, we validate the SBD-predicted impact of $S$ via implicit measurements, theoretical-bound-guided controls, and Neural Tangent Kernel (NTK) evaluations. In particular, we construct Green Shell (GSH) to show the possibility of reducing Causality Tax. GSH is a non-causal variational family, and it…

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  • arXiv cs.LGOct 2

    All Work And No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy: Understanding and Preventing Catastrophic Strategy Collapse in RLVR

    Qiyuan Huang, Tianshi Xu, Meng Li

    During post-training of large language models (LLMs) with Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR), GRPO-style algorithms can exhibit severe late-stage collapse. Prompt-based probing reveals that this is not benign strategic pruning, but a harmful contraction of effective strategy capacity that makes distinct reasoning strategies increasingly inaccessible. To characterize this phenomenon, we define strategies through trajectory-level policy-update interactions and develop a unified theoretical framework combining optimization dynamics and information theory. We prove that major RLVR objectives progressively concentrate probability mass onto a single strategy, while sustaining nontrivial task accuracy requires a minimum strategy capacity. The conflict between these two results provides a mechanistic explanation for catastrophic collapse. We further derive the {Mirrored Entanglement Index (MEI)} as a lightweight online warning signal. To prevent collapse, we propose \textbf{Mesh Learning}, which exposes multiple reasoning strategies and prevents any single strategy from dominating optimization. Across AIME26, AIME25, MATH-500, GPQA, and LiveCodeBench, Mesh Learning…

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  • arXiv cs.ROOct 2▲ 2

    FastOPD: On-Policy Distillation for Lightweight VLA Deployment

    Yoojin Oh, Jeongsol Kim, Yeonwoo Seo, Jangho Park, Seonghyun Jin +5

    Vision-Language-Action (VLA) foundation models have scaled rapidly to enhance manipulation performance and generalizability, but this scaling incurs high computational costs that render real-world deployment increasingly challenging. Existing approaches typically mitigate this issue by designing smaller architectures or reducing the iterative denoising steps in flow-based policies. In this work, we propose FastOPD, a foundation-to-lightweight VLA framework that enables the practical deployment of large-scale VLAs through efficient on-policy distillation. Specifically, FastOPD adapts a flow map for single-state teacher supervision and combines it with a self-consistency objective to construct a compact student that learns the teacher dynamics. Furthermore, we theoretically demonstrate that minimizing this objective allows the distilled student to recover a distribution on par with that induced by an ideal few-step teacher model. We evaluate FastOPD across diverse foundation policies in simulation and real-world experiments. On LIBERO, FastOPD retains 84% of the performance of $π_{0.5}$ with only two inference steps, reducing inference latency by 78.1% while outperforming existing…

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  • arXiv cs.AIOct 2

    AMBER: Multi-View Adaptive Budget Allocation for Listwise Vision-Language Reranking

    Wenteng Chen, Jiachen Zhu, Rong Shan, Tianyi Xu, Yuxiang Chen +8

    Vision-language models (VLMs) are powerful listwise rerankers for multimodal retrieval, but high inference costs restrict them to evaluating small local candidate views. Existing multi-call strategies rely on fixed schedules, wasting expensive VLM calls on uninformative candidate pairs and easy queries. To address this, we propose Adaptive Multi-view Budgeted Elo Reranking (AMBER), an online, budgeted multi-view reranking framework that dynamically optimizes global resource allocation. AMBER treats fragmented listwise VLM outputs as local tournaments, using continuous Elo updates to maintain a lightweight global ranking state. Building on this, it allocates computation at two levels: dynamically constructing candidate views with high score ambiguity, and scheduling queries to maximize expected information gain. We show that each Elo update corresponds to a stochastic gradient ascent step on the Bradley-Terry log-likelihood, and provide a submodular information-theoretic motivation for the query-level allocation strategy. Experiments on CIRR, CIRCO, and PhotoBench demonstrate that AMBER achieves the strongest overall performance among the compared multi-call VLM reranking methods…

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  • arXiv cs.CLOct 2

    Clinical Concept Centers in LLMs

    Aishik Nagar, Abhishek Vaidyanathan, Arun-Kumar Kaliya-Perumal, Elijah Tzen Hsuen Boey, Stefan Winkler

    Large language models are increasingly used in clinical settings. However, research into the reliability and performance of these models has focused almost entirely on the language substrate, scoring what the model says. Mechanistic interpretability has found that the latent space carries a higher fidelity of representation than the text: internal representations not only encode substantially more than the output verbalizes, but the stated reasoning also systematically omits features that causally drive the answer. An evaluation of model behavior in terms of mechanistic interpretability has not been explored in clinical decision support. In this work, we extend behavioral evaluation into the latent space and ask whether clinical concepts exist as locatable, causally used representations inside open-weight LLMs. We find dedicated clinical concept centers in the latent space of all eleven open models we test. These concept centers are interpretable, firing only on their aligned clinical narratives, and meaningfully and causally drive model behavior in both constrained and open-ended settings. They are not just analytical representations, but circuits that can be utilized in…

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  • arXiv cs.AIOct 2

    FSPO: Policy-Consistent Risk and Pareto-Feasible Control for Budgeted LLM RL Post-Training

    Miaobo Hu, Shuhao Hu, Xiaobo Guo, Xin Wang, Bokun Wang +2

    Adaptive LLM reinforcement-learning post-training changes multiple training actuators online, including rollout temperature, group size, clipping, KL regularization, verifier allocation, and update budget. Three coupled issues remain unresolved. A future-risk model trained from behavior trajectories need not estimate the risk induced by the controller that will be deployed; a score calibrated on logged state-action pairs can become miscalibrated after selective action choice; and independent per-resource minimum costs do not in general certify a feasible multi-resource continuation. We introduce FSPO, a feedback-state controller for budgeted LLM RL post-training that addresses these issues jointly. FSPO learns a policy-consistent risk-to-go model whose Bellman target follows the same frozen controller used for future decisions, together with a long-horizon utility model. Decision-conditioned trajectory calibration (DCTC) calibrates risk on cross-fitted trajectories generated by actions selected by provisional controllers. A Pareto resource continuation certificate (PRCC) admits an action only when a non-dominated cumulative reservation remains feasible over the residual horizon.…

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  • arXiv cs.AIOct 2

    MLCommons Jailbreak Benchmark v1.0

    Carsten Maple, Cagatay Yucel, Isaac Holeman, Chris Knotz, Peter Mattson +33

    Modern AI systems are designed to refuse hazardous requests. A jailbreak is a prompt crafted to bypass those safeguards and elicit outputs that the system would normally refuse to provide. The MLCommons Jailbreak Benchmark v1.0 provides an end-to-end methodology for evaluating the robustness of large language models to single-turn, text-based jailbreak attacks. It combines criteria-driven system and attack selection, paired baseline and adversarial evaluation, human annotation, automated evaluator calibration, scoring, grading, and risk-calibrated disclosure within a single benchmarking pipeline. The benchmark evaluates eight open-weight systems using 264 seed prompts spanning eleven hazard categories and representative attacks drawn from the MLCommons Jailbreak Taxonomy. Responses are assessed using the AILuminate Assessment Standard v1.4, and robustness is measured through the Resilience Gap: the change in safety performance between baseline and adversarial conditions. Across all evaluated systems and attacks, the unsafe-response rate increased from 11.08% under baseline conditions to 18.65% under jailbreak conditions, producing an average Resilience Gap of 7.57%. Accessible…

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  • arXiv cs.AIOct 2▲ 105

    Scaling Trajectories for Complex Tasks through Recursive Self-Rewrite

    Zongxia Li, Yucheng Shi, Zhongzhi Li, Junyao Yang, Ruhan Wang +5

    Successful trajectories on difficult tasks provide valuable supervision for model improvement, but specialized harnesses introduce interventions that may be unavailable during deployment. We propose Recursive Self-Rewrite (RSR), a framework that uses one base model, Qwen-3.8-27B, to discover successful solutions under diverse harnesses and reconstruct them as training trajectories under a general harness. A planner extracts procedures into runbooks, a critic screens for verifier and solution leakage and guides recursive revision, and an executor follows qualified runbooks in fresh sandboxes. Across approximately 3K self-curated terminal tasks, three harnesses jointly solve 759 tasks, 34.3% more than the strongest individual harness in the recorded pool. RSR expands 2,001 successful source trajectories into 11,094 rewritten trajectories for supervised finetuning. Training on these trajectories outperforms both the base model and direct trajectory SFT. Compared with the base model, pass@3 increases from 57.0% to 74.2% on Terminal-Bench 2, from 1.5% to 9.1% on Terminal-Bench 4, from 39.0% to 63.0% on our self-curated Terminal-Bench Hard, and from 3.0% to 6.0% on our Software…

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  • arXiv cs.CVOct 2

    TerrainForge: Physics-Grounded Road Geometry Editing for Counterfactual Autonomous Driving

    Yang Chen, Yicheng Zhu, zhenning Li, Tao Li, Zilin Bian

    Road geometry (e.g., crests, sags, and speed humps) and surface conditions (e.g., wet or icy pavement) affect how vehicles move, what drivers and onboard cameras observe, and how much clearance remains between vehicles. Editing these properties in a driving scene therefore requires corresponding changes in vehicle motion. Capturing these differences in a driving video requires a road edit to propagate to vehicle motion, camera viewpoint, and the clearance between vehicles. We present TerrainForge, a framework for generating road geometry-focused counterfactuals from reconstructed multi-vehicle driving episodes. A unified road model connects scene deformation with four-wheel vehicle dynamics, allowing crests, sags, speed humps, and friction changes to propagate through vehicle motion, camera viewpoint, and inter-vehicle clearance. Vehicle dynamics are evaluated against CarSim, and prescribed road geometry is verified in reconstructed Waymo scenes. Across 18 episodes, leaving surrounding vehicles on their recorded trajectories instead of recomputing their responses produces median peak differences in predicted ego-lead distance of 1.52 m for crests and 1.41 m for sags. We further…

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  • arXiv cs.AITraining & fine-tuningOct 2▲ 33

    MetaRubric: Learning to Reward for Rubric-Based Reinforcement Learning

    Yuxuan Fan, Jaehong Yoon

    Rubric-based reinforcement learning extends reward-driven optimization to open-ended tasks by assigning partial credit to individual response requirements. However, rubric judges can assign a high criterion score even when the information or action it requires is absent from the response, a failure mode we term Vacuous Credit. Such awards persist after the required information is removed and can reverse the sign of a response's GRPO advantage. To address this problem, we introduce MetaRubric, which alternates evidence-aware policy optimization with response-guided rubric adaptation. We construct counterfactual counterparts by changing one task-relevant fact in each prompt. During policy optimization, credit is assigned only when the response contains sufficient evidence to satisfy the required rubric criterion. After each policy-optimization stage, current policy responses guide revisions to original and counterfactual criteria while preserving the meaning of the original prompt's initial rubric as interpreted under each prompt's facts. We also adapt criterion weights at stage boundaries to better address observed policy errors. Across multiple backbones, MetaRubric improves…

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  • arXiv cs.LGOct 2

    Adaptive Spectral-Koopman Dynamics Modeling for Temporal Domain Generalization

    Tengxue Zhang, Yu Ke, Yang Shu, Chenchen Sun, Yisheng An +2

    Temporal Domain Generalization (TDG) has emerged to address real-world streaming data with distribution shifts over time. However, existing methods are either prone to overfitting to domain-specific noise in the data space or become overly complex and less interpretable in the parameter space. To bridge these gaps, we propose \textbf{AdaSpecK}, a spectral-Koopman framework with adaptive context extraction for TDG. To mitigate noise fitting to irregularly sampled domains, we introduce spectral-regularized Koopman dynamics modeling, which applies spectral-aware filtering in the latent space to extract denoised low-frequency trajectories and learn a Koopman operator to model the system dynamics in a linearized space. To model complex historical environments under non-stationarity, we design a context-informed heterogeneous pattern extraction mechanism. Specifically, we employ a target-conditioned attention module to attend to distinct past windows, producing a dynamic, target-specific historical summary. By constructing an environmental signature from the current evolutionary pattern, our model adaptively perceives which aspects of the past context are most informative for future…

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  • arXiv cs.CLMultimodalOct 2

    Text-Centric Post-Training for Omni-Modal Reasoning

    Ziyang Cheng, Yuhao Wang, Hongcheng Liu, Qimin Wu, Jingru Fan +3

    Improving joint audio-visual reasoning in Omni Large Language Models typically incurs substantial data construction and training costs. Our diagnostics reveal multi-hop reasoning difficulties despite correct answers to all corresponding single-hop questions and suggest partial decoupling in the local optimization of perception and reasoning objectives. This motivates post-training with different emphases on these capabilities. Text-only reasoning training yields gains across data sources, model scales, and families. With the best-performing text-only configuration, supervised fine-tuning followed by reinforcement learning (RL) raises Qwen2.5-Omni-7B's geometric mean of nine reasoning scores by 25.83% over the base model, outperforming the complete native audio-visual route with 56.6% fewer GPU-hours. Training on data synthesized entirely by a text-only LLM raises this geometric mean by 21.01% without audio-visual data in construction or training. However, text-only training degrades perception. We therefore propose a text-centric post-training paradigm: text-only training provides the main reasoning optimization, and reduced-data native audio-visual RL then refines perception.…

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  • arXiv cs.CRAI safetyOct 2

    RMCW: A Deletion-Robust Watermark Based on Reed--Muller Codes for Language Models

    Yi Wang, Baicheng Chen, Yu Wang, Jian Zhao, Yilei Chen +1

    Large Language Model (LLM) watermarking provides a lightweight mechanism for identifying text generated by a specific model, but its robustness remains fragile under post-processing attacks. Deletion attacks are particularly challenging because they shift token positions and break the alignment between observed tokens and their original watermark positions. We propose Reed--Muller Code Watermarking (RMCW), an LLM watermarking method based on Reed--Muller codes. In contrast to global codeword recovery, RMCW searches for surviving local algebraic structure, leveraging the Reed--Solomon consistency induced by affine-line restrictions of Reed--Muller codewords. During generation, RMCW injects a Reed--Muller structure into the sequence via a secret-keyed vocabulary partition. During detection, it maps the given text to keyed vocabulary bins and tests local subsequences for low-degree Reed--Solomon consistency using Berlekamp--Welch tests. Experiments on C4 and ELI5 datasets with OPT-1.3B and Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct show that RMCW preserves strong clean-text detectability and outperforms or matches the baseline methods under several deletion and rewriting attacks. Our code is available…

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  • arXiv cs.LGTraining & fine-tuningOct 2

    Gated Slot Attention-2: Two-Sided Associative Memory Correction in Linear Attention

    Ruijie Li, Shengnan Ding, Weimin Zhang, Derick Tang, Zhanpeng Zeng +4

    Linear attention models have emerged as efficient alternatives to standard attention, but effectively managing their fixed-size recurrent memory remains challenging. To improve memory, recent work has explored two distinct directions: delta-rule variants for precise correction of values associated with keys, and slot-based architectures such as Gated Slot Attention for modeling key and value memories in two stages. We observe that these directions are complementary--the delta rule provides effective memory correction, while the two-stage structure provides a natural way to operate on both sides of an association. Building on this insight, we introduce a new Gated Oja Rule for key-side correction and extend it with decoupled erase and write control to obtain Gated Oja Rule-2. We then introduce Gated Slot Attention-2 (GSA2), which combines Gated Oja Rule-2 for key-side correction with Gated Delta Rule-2 for value-side correction through shared latent slots. We further derive a hardware-efficient chunkwise algorithm for parallel training. Experiments demonstrate that GSA2 consistently improves over strong linear-attention baselines across benchmarks while retaining linear-time…

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  • arXiv cs.AIOct 2

    iS-KV: Online Low-Rank KV Cache Compression via Block-Incremental SVD

    Yiren Zhao, Guanghui Song, Tianrui Qin, Kejiang Ye, Cheng-zhong Xu +1

    Long chain-of-thought reasoning substantially increases KV-cache memory during autoregressive decoding, as every generated token introduces new key and value states and causes the cache to grow linearly with decoding length. Existing KV-cache compression methods typically control this growth through token eviction, but irreversible deletion can remove historical states that later reasoning may need to revisit. SVD-based low-rank compression provides an alternative by retaining all positions with a more compact representation. However, extending it from a fixed prompt cache to online decoding is non-trivial. Through our investigation, we find that if the basis is updated for new tokens while old tokens keep their coordinates in the old basis, the stored history drifts substantially. Based on this observation, we propose iS-KV, an online low-rank KV-cache compression method for long-horizon reasoning. iS-KV keeps a recent window exact while incrementally folding older states into bounded-rank representations. As the low-rank basis evolves, it synchronizes historical coordinates with the updated basis to maintain representation consistency. On DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B, iS-KV…

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