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Is the first alien signal a civilization’s last message?

The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence would rank alongside fire and writing in the story of our species, ...
IEEE

Confidence-Modulated Speculative Decoding for Large Language Models

Abstract: Speculative decoding has proven to be a powerful method for speeding up autoregressive inference by allowing tokens to be generated in parallel using a draft-then-verify approach. However, ...
GitHub

ViSpec: Accelerating Vision-Language Models with Vision-Aware Speculative Decoding

Speculative decoding is a widely adopted technique for accelerating inference in large language models (LLMs), yet its application to vision-language models (VLMs) remains underexplored, with existing ...
IEEE

PD-VLA: Accelerating Vision-Language-Action Model Integrated with Action Chunking via Parallel Decoding

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models demonstrate remarkable potential for generalizable robotic manipulation. The performance of VLA models can be improved by integrating with action chunking, a ...
Psychology Today

Decoding Aphasia: Separating Language From Thought

Imagine you’re a physician and you are called in to evaluate a patient who has had a sudden change in his neurological status, likely a stroke. You find him alert, mobile, and talking. But when you ...
GitHub

Decoding Decoded: Understanding Hyperparameter Effects in Open-Ended Text Generation

To download the pre-generated dataset used in our paper, please run the following command: We then benchmark the decoding quality and perplexity of those decoding methods. Please check the Benchmark ...