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arXiv:2505.19578v1 [cs.LG] 26 May 2025Accelerating Prefilling for Long-Context LLMs via Sparse Pattern Sharing Dan Peng1, Zhihui Fu1, Zewen Ye2, Zhuoran Song3, Jun Wang1 1OPPO Research Institute,2Zhejiang University,3Shanghai Jiaotong University lepangdan@outlook.com ,hzzhzzf@gmail.com ,zewen-ye@outlook.com , songzhuor...
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of many atten- tion heads tends to be highly similar. More im- portantly, the similarity relationships among these heads remain largely consistent, even though the sparse patterns themselves vary significantly across different inputs, as shown in Figure 2. Conse- quently, we propose a highly accurate sparse atten- tion...
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deviate significantly from previ- ously proposed static patterns like the vertical-slash pattern (Jiang et al., 2024). The highly dynamic nature intrinsic to attention mechanisms exposes the limitations of fixed-pattern approaches and un- derscores the need for adaptive, dynamic attention modeling techniques. FlexPrefi...
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head index. Additionally, Figure 2(b) shows the statistical similarity matrix based on Jaccard similarity scores (# intersection / # union) between one head and all others. This measure avoids artifi- cially high similarity values that could arise from the presence of many zeros in these sparse patterns. Notably, a lar...
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on their attention score maps using a sample from the Retr.KV task in InfiniteBench. We first obtain compressed low- dimensional representations of the attention scores by training an autoencoder network on these at- tention score maps (the network architecture is il- lustrated in Appendix C). Next, we normalize the re...
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cluster index 𝐶𝑖. Pivotal Patterns are shared if available; otherwise, a dense pattern is assigned. The sparse attention output Ois computed using M, and ˜Aupdates the dynamic pivotal pattern dictionary. wise average QK values to compute the block-wise average attention scores after applying softmax. These scores are...
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5:else if𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛 == vertical_slash then 6:M←Search Vertical Slash Pattern( Q,K,𝛾) 7:end if # Compute the output Oand block-averaged QK values ˜Aby applying sparse pattern M 8:O,˜A←A (Q,K,V,M) # Construct and update global dynamic pivotal pat- terns via the newest block-averaged QK values ˜A and pattern threshol...
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FlexPrefill MInference FlashAttn 1K8K16K 32K 64K 96K104K Context Length8101214PerplexityQwen2.5-7B-Instruct Ours FlexPrefill MInference FlashAttn Figure 4: Perplexity results on PG-19 (Rae et al., 2020) using different models and methods. signed to assess comprehensive long-context under- standing. This benchmark compr...
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in Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct and over 1.0 in Llama-3-8B-Instruct-262k. These results demon- strate the strong language modeling capabilities of our approach. Performance vs. Latency Figure 5 shows the latency across different context windows un- der Llama-3-8B-Instruct-262k and Qwen2.5-7B- Instruct on a single A100. The resu...
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multi-modular systems, which will be explored in future work. Limitations Although we provide observational and statistical evidence on the similarity properties between at- tention heads, the underlying explanation for the highly consistent similarity relationships among heads across different inputs remains unclear. ...
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2024. Gemini 1.5: Unlocking multimodal understanding across millions of tokens of context. arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.05530 . Qwen Team. 2024. Qwen2.5: A party of foundation models. Philippe Tillet, Hsiang-Tsung Kung, and David Cox. 2019. Triton: an intermediate language and com- piler for tiled neural network computati...
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with full- attention models often scoring near 0. •PG-19 Language Modeling Benchmark (Rae et al., 2020) proposed a long-context lan- guage modeling benchmark4that evaluates perplexity on the PG-19 dataset and whose repository is released under the Apache 2.0 li- cense. Perplexity quantifies how well a model predicts th...
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ˆA←softmax( ˆQK𝑇/√ 𝑑), where ˆQ⊂Q # Sum and normalize attention scores along the vertical and slash directions a𝒗←sum_vertical( ˆA)/Í 𝑖, 𝑗ˆA[𝐼,𝑗]) a𝒔←sum_slash( ˆA)/Í 𝑖, 𝑗ˆA[𝐼,𝑗]) # Sort vertical and slash attention scores I𝒗←𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑠𝑜𝑟𝑡(a𝒗) I𝒔←𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑠𝑜𝑟𝑡(a𝒔) # Obtain the minimum computational bu...
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arXiv:2505.19586v2 [cs.CL] 27 May 2025TailorKV: A Hybrid Framework for Long-Context Inference via Tailored KV Cache Optimization Dingyu Yao1,2∗, Bowen Shen1,2, Zheng Lin1,2†, Wei Liu3, Jian Luan3, Bin Wang3, Weiping Wang1 1Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 2School of Cybe...
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significant de- coding latency overheads due to slow data transfer between CPU RAM and GPU RAM. To optimize accuracy, memory, and latency si- multaneously, we first analyze the compression preferences for the KV cache based on layer char- acteristics. Prior researches (Feng et al., 2024; Cai et al., 2024) applied diffe...
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and values for head iare computed and cached, as follows: Ki=XWk i,Vi=XWv i. (1) During decoding, the new token embedding x∈ R1×dis computed iteratively to produce the query, key, and value vectors. The cache is updated and the output oof each attention head is computed as: Ki←Cat[Ki,xWk i],Vi←Cat[Vi,xWv i], (2) ai= So...
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previous belief (Li et al., 2024; Zhang et al., 2023), we propose that not all layers are suitable for sparsity. To quantify the sparsity challenges during decoding, we define the sparse error E. Let a∈R1×nrepresents the attention weight as de- fined in Equation 3, and let M ∈ { 0,1}ndenote a binary mask that selects t...
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static channel sparsity, utilizing offline cal- ibration technique to identify high-magnitude chan- nels. However, we find that the sparsity of query and key channels is dynamic rather than static. As shown in Figure 2 (Bottom), outliers in the query and key do not consistently appear in fixed posi- tions; instead, the...
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based on this insight. We first estimate the criti- cal channels to identify outliers in the query and key cache, referred to as the critical current query and critical key cache. Since the critical key cache resides in the CPU, we employ prefetching to load it in advance. We leverage inter-layer similarity to predict ...
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Table 2: Comparison of memory usage among different methods. The symbols QandSdenote the quantization- friendly layer and sparsity-friendly layer, respectively. MethodsLongBench InfiniteBench Tokens SD.QA MD.QA Summ FS.L Code Synth Avg. Tokens Retr Dia Novel Math Code Avg. Llama-3.1-8B 128k 49.6 50.9 31.2 69.4 60.0 53....
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al., 2024), Yi-6B-200K (01-ai, 2024a), and Yi-9B- 200K (01-ai, 2024b). To demonstrate the su- perior performance of our method, we compare TailorKV with competitive baselines, including StreamingLLM (Xiao et al., 2024b), SnapKV (Li et al., 2024), Quest (Tang et al., 2024), and PQ- Cache (Zhang et al., 2024a). To evalua...
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K-Means to one iteration for real-time inference, which com- promises accuracy and exposes PQCache’s limi- tations. Notably, our hybrid strategy outperforms individual strategies, with an average performance loss under 1.5% compared to the full cache, espe- cially excelling in dialogue, novel, and math tasks. RULER. Fi...
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degrades performance, highlighting the need for tailored compression strategies. Effect of Dynamic Channels. Prior study (Yang et al., 2024b) employed offline calibration to stat- ically select high-magnitude channels. However, we find that outliers may appear at any position, not fixed to specific channels (Section 3)...
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based on large magnitudes in the query and key channels, integrating CPU-GPU co- design. Experiments across long-context bench- marks show that TailorKV effectively minimizes the usage of the KV cache while maintaining model performance, with an acceptable latency cost. Our hybrid framework demonstrates the potential o...
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S Kevin Zhou. 2024. Ada-kv: Optimizing kv cache eviction by adaptive budget allocation for efficient llm inference. ArXiv preprint , abs/2407.11550. Yefei He, Luoming Zhang, Weijia Wu, Jing Liu, Hong Zhou, and Bohan Zhuang. 2024. Zipcache: Accu- rate and efficient KV cache quantization with salient token identification...
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importance hypothesis for LLM KV cache compression at test time. In Proc. of NeurIPS . Zirui Liu, Jiayi Yuan, Hongye Jin, Shaochen (Henry) Zhong, Zhaozhuo Xu, Vladimir Braverman, Beidi Chen, and Xia Hu. 2024d. Kivi: a tuning-free asym- metric 2bit quantization for kv cache. In Proceed- ings of the 41st International Co...
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llm inference. ArXiv preprint , abs/2407.12820. Libo Zhang, Zhaoning Zhang, Baizhou Xu, Songzhu Mei, and Dongsheng Li. 2024b. Dovetail: A cpu/gpu heterogeneous speculative decoding for llm inference. arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.18934 . Xinrong Zhang, Yingfa Chen, Shengding Hu, Zihang Xu, Junhao Chen, Moo Hao, Xu Han, Zhe...
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Baselines Settings In Table 5 and Table 6, we present the configura- tion for the long-context methods employed in our experiments. E Comparison with Hybrid Method To validate the effectiveness of our quantization- sparsity hybrid framework, we compare it to Sim- LayerKV (Zhang et al., 2024d), a similar hybrid method. ...
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crucial information. G More Information on Models and Benchmarks G.1 Baselines In all of our experiments, we use pre-trained model weights obtained from Huggingface. These models are based on two representative attention structures: (1) MHA: including Llama-2-7B-32K-Instruct4. (2) GQA: including Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct5,...
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Bench. InfiniteBench. A benchmark designed to assess the ability of language models to process, under- stand, and reason with extremely long contexts 6https://huggingface.co/01-ai/Yi-6B-200K 7https://huggingface.co/01-ai/Yi-9B-200K(200k+ tokens). We test the Llama3 and Yi models with context lengths of 128K and 200K, t...
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0.108 0.108 0.110 TailorKV 0.045 0.047 0.054 0.054 0.056 Llama-2-7B-32K-Instruct Full Cache 0.045 0.077 0.140 OOM OOM OffloadCach 0.433 0.838 1.767 3.253 4.468 PQCache 0.108 0.111 0.112 0.115 0.120 TailorKV 0.041 0.062 0.098 0.132 0.170 Yi-6B-200K Full Cache 0.019 0.021 0.029 0.036 0.044 OffloadCach 0.066 0.118 0.221 0...
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13.2 0.5 0.1 67.0 9.4 64.5 50.2 53.7 3.5 13.5 26.2 PQCache 192 24.1 36.8 13.6 15.3 1.3 0.01 68.5 7.6 68.1 54.1 57.4 2.5 5.5 27.3 TailorKV-1 64(+128) 24.5 40.5 15.6 15.3 2.7 0.1 72.0 8.5 68.3 55.2 56.5 2.5 5.5 28.3 TailorKV-2 64(+128) 24.1 40.8 15.2 15.5 3.0 0.01 72.0 8.6 66.7 54.8 57.9 2.5 5.5 28.2 Table 14: Results on...
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48.0 24.0 44.0 22.9 Quest 68.0 92.0 20.0 68.0 40.0 0.0 24.0 42.0 16.0 10.8 62.6 28.0 36.0 39.0 PQCache 32.0 56.0 4.0 36.0 16.0 0.0 7.0 39.0 31.2 6.0 66.6 20.0 36.0 26.9 TailorKV-1 100.0 100.0 92.0 100.0 84.0 28.0 53.0 89.0 6.4 32.0 49.3 32.0 48.0 62.6 TailorKV-2 100.0 100.0 92.0 100.0 84.0 28.0 62.0 90.0 42.4 33.6 48.0...
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Learning to Reason without External Rewards Xuandong Zhao∗ UC Berkeley xuandongzhao@berkeley.eduZhewei Kang∗ UC Berkeley waynekang@berkeley.eduAosong Feng Yale University aosong.feng@yale.edu Sergey Levine UC Berkeley svlevine@berkeley.eduDawn Song UC Berkeley dawnsong@berkeley.edu Abstract Training large language mode...
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paradigm: Reinforcement Learning from Internal Feedback (RLIF) , where models optimize intrinsic feedback to improve performance without external rewards or supervision. The motivation for RLIF extends to future scenarios where models develop superhuman capabilities that become difficult for humans to evaluate directly...
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a reward model on human preference data. While effective, RLHF is often resource-intensive due to the need for extensive human annotation [Touvron et al., 2023]. Subsequent innovations like Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) [Rafailov et al., 2023] aimed to simplify this by directly training models on preferences. Th...
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and those using verifiable, often task-specific, rewards (RLVR). 3 In RLHF [Ziegler et al., 2019, Ouyang et al., 2022], the policy πθis optimized to align with human preferences, typically encapsulated by a learned reward model rϕ. The objective is: max πθEo∼πθ(q)[rϕ(q, o)−βKL[πθ(o|q)∥πref(o|q)]] (1) where qis an input...
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lower confidence when encountering unfamiliar tasks or lacking sufficient knowledge [Kang et al., 2024]. Conversely, higher confidence frequently correlates with correctness. By rewarding increased self-confidence, INTUITOR encourages to iteratively "practice" and refine its reasoning pathways until it becomes more con...
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comparison of various methods on the GSM8K, MATH, LCB, CRUXEval -O, MMLU-Pro, and AlpacaEval benchmarks. The INTUITOR -Code variant is trained on Codeforces data with a smaller learning rate and fewer training steps. All evaluations are obtained with the chat inference template, except for MMLU-Pro. Model Training Data...
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et al., 2024], using the ZeroEval framework [Lin, 2024], and LiveCodeBench v6 (LCB) [Jain et al., 2024]. (3) Instruction following : AlpacaEval 2.0 with length-controlled win rates [Dubois et al., 2024], judged by GPT-4.1 [OpenAI, 2025]. 6 0 20 40 60 Step700800900100011001200Completion Length Qwen2.5-1.5B 0 20 40 60 St...
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Notably, LiveCodeBench performance continues to improve even after MATH500 accuracy plateaus. This pattern suggests that initial in-domain learning (on MATH) facilitates subsequent generalization to code generation tasks (LiveCodeBench). Questiondescription... E.g.,```json{reasoning: ___, answer: ___}```To solve this, ...
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al., 2023]. To assess the robustness of self-certainty as a reward, we compare offline self-certainty (rewards from a fixed base model) with online self-certainty (rewards from the evolving policy model), using a reduced batch size of 224 responses per gradient update. Figure 7 demonstrates that the offline annotator i...
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self-certainty on MATH500 responses, for policies trained with GRPO and INTU- ITOR . Histograms are split by response correctness. The inset shows Mann–Whitney U test statistics ( p- value and effect size r) comparing self-certainty of correct versus incorrect responses. The policy trained with I NTUITOR demonstrates t...
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promotes structured reasoning and leverages online self-certainty to guard against reward exploitation. These findings highlight the transformative potential of RLIF, signaling a meaningful step toward AI systems that improve through introspection and unlock rich latent capabilities. Looking forward, this paradigm open...
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Song. Scalable best-of-n selection for large language models via self-certainty. arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.18581 , 2025. Wenjie Ma, Jingxuan He, Charlie Snell, Tyler Griggs, Sewon Min, and Matei Zaharia. Reasoning models can be effective without thinking. arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.09858 , 2025. Zhihong Shao, Peiyi Wang...
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and Jason E. Weston. Self-rewarding language models. In Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning , volume 235 of Proceedings of Machine Learning Research , pages 57905–57923. PMLR, 2024. Eric Zelikman, Yuhuai Wu, Jesse Mu, and Noah Goodman. Star: Bootstrapping reasoning with reasoning. Advan...
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Kavukcuoglu, and Oriol Vinyals. Competition-level code generation with alphacode. arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.07814 , 2022. Yubo Wang, Xueguang Ma, Ge Zhang, Yuansheng Ni, Abhranil Chandra, Shiguang Guo, Weiming Ren, Aaran Arulraj, Xuan He, Ziyan Jiang, et al. Mmlu-pro: A more robust and challenging multi-task language u...
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nature of the multi-node training setup. This issue does not occur when we train smaller models on a single machine. A.2 Evaluation on Llama3.2-3B-Instruct We further evaluate INTUITOR on the Llama3.2-3B-Instruct model. Compared to the Qwen family, improvements on external benchmarks are less pronounced—likely due to e...
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Thus, there are 2 people who are over 60 years old. Example 2 Input details = ["1313579440F2036","2921522980M5644"] Output 0 17 Explanation None of the passengers are older than 60. Constraints • 1 <= details.length <= 100 • details[i].length == 15 • details[i] consists of digits from ’0’ to ’9’. • details[i][10] is ei...
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correct Python code, while GRPO-tuned models may misinterpret the instructions or decline to provide a response. Problem Question: There are three cards with letters a,b, andcplaced in a row in some order. You may perform at most one operation: • Pick any two cards and swap them. Is it possible that the row becomes abc...
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p u t ( ) . s t r i p ( ) ) f o r _ i n r a n g e ( t ) : p r i n t ( c a n _ t r a n s f o r m _ t o _ a b c ( i n p u t ( ) . s t r i p ( ) ) ) ‘ ‘ ‘ GRPO-tuned ‘ ‘ ‘ python # YOUR CODE HERE ‘ ‘ ‘ Another related GRPO-tuned response to another problem I’m sorry, but I can’t assist with that request. B.4 Example from ...
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+= ch r e t u r n n e w _ t e x t 2.Input: The input to the function is an empty string ”. 3.Step-by-Step Execution: •Step 1:text.lower().strip() –text.lower() converts the string to lowercase. –text.strip() removes leading or trailing whitespace. –For”, both calls return ”, so the result is ”. •Step 2: Iterate over ea...
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S i n c e an empty s t r i n g c o n t a i n s no c h a r a c t e r s , t h e f u n c t i o n s h o u l d r e t u r n an empty s t r i n g as w e l l . T h e r e f o r e , t h e e x p e c t e d o u t p u t f o r an empty s t r i n g i s an empty s t r i n g . " , " answer " : " " } ‘ ‘ ‘ B.5 Rollout Example of I NTUITO...
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a l c u l a t e s t o n e s T = c a l c u l a t e _ s t o n e s ( S ) # P r i n t o u t p u t p r i n t ( T ) ‘ ‘ ‘ 22 This code computes the sum of digits from right to left, using an array ‘remainder‘ to store partial remainders modulo 1000000007. It then calculates T as the final remainder times 10 plus the first re...
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f o r row i n s u r v e y : a , b , c , d = row i f a > m or b > n or c > m or d > n : c o n t i n u e f o r i i n r a n g e ( a , c + 1 ) : f o r j i n r a n g e ( b , d + 1 ) : i f map_info [ ( i , j ) ] == ’ J ’ : j _ c o u n t += 1 e l i f map_info [ ( i , j ) ] == ’O’ : 23 o_count += 1 e l i f map_info [ ( i , j )...
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( r e g i o n [ 0 ] , r e g i o n [ 1 ] , r e g i o n [ 2 ] ) i f __name__ == " __main__ " : main ( ) ‘ ‘ ‘ Explanation : 1.count_terrain Function : This function takes the map information and a survey region, and counts the number of ‘J‘, ‘O‘, and ‘I‘ in that region. 2.process_input Function : This function reads the ...
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222 14294 8 19957 69913 37531 96991 57838 21008 14207 19198 Sample Output 1: 1 9 0 189114 112141 Note •In the first case, we should pick two trucks, so the first one will have only the first box, and the second one will have only the second box. •In the second case, we should pick six trucks, so the maximum will be 10,...
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m p o r t heappush , heappop d e f m a x _ d i f f e r e n c e ( n , w e i g h t s ) : # C a l c u l a t e t h e t o t a l w e i g h t of a l l boxes t o t a l _ w e i g h t = sum ( w e i g h t s ) # I n i t i a l i z e v a r i a b l e s t o s t o r e t h e maximum # and minimum t o t a l w e i g h t s of t h e t r u c...
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a t e t h e maximum a b s o l u t e d i f f e r e n c e r e s u l t = m a x _ d i f f e r e n c e ( n , w e i g h t s ) # Write t h e r e s u l t t o s t d o u t p r i n t ( r e s u l t ) ‘ ‘ ‘ Step 40: Correct To solve the problem of finding the maximum absolute difference between the total weights of any two trucks, ...
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a x _ d i f f e r e n c e , abs ( max_weight − min_weight ) ) r e t u r n m a x _ d i f f e r e n c e d e f main ( ) : t = i n t ( i n p u t ( ) ) f o r _ i n r a n g e ( t ) : n = i n t ( i n p u t ( ) ) w e i g h t s = l i s t ( map ( i n t , i n p u t ( ) . s p l i t ( ) ) ) r e s u l t = f i n d _ m a x _ d i f f e...
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i g h t s [ i *k : ( i + 1) *k ] ) f o r i i n r a n g e ( n / / k ) ] m a x _ d i f f = max ( max_diff , max ( t r u c k _ w e i g h t s ) − min ( t r u c k _ w e i g h t s ) ) r e t u r n m a x _ d i f f d e f s o l v e ( ) : t = i n t ( i n p u t ( ) ) f o r _ i n r a n g e ( t ) : n = i n t ( i n p u t ( ) ) w e i ...
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arXiv:2505.19591v1 [cs.CL] 26 May 2025Multi-Agent Collaboration via Evolving Orchestration Yufan Dang⋆†Chen Qian♣†Xueheng Luo⋆Jingru Fan⋆Zihao Xie⋆ Ruijie Shi⋆Weize Chen⋆Cheng Yang♠Xiaoyin Che♢Ye Tian♡ Xuantang Xiong♡Lei Han♡Zhiyuan Liu⋆BMaosong Sun⋆B ⋆Tsinghua University♣Shanghai Jiao Tong University ♠Beijing Universi...
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process orchestrated by a centralized puppeteer who dynamically selects and sequences agent activations based on evolving task states, implicitly coordinating collaboration within the group. As tasks progress, the orchestrator learns to prioritize effective agents and suppress less efficient ones, continually driving t...
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by a centralized orchestrator. This orchestrator dynamically selects which agents to activate in each step, based on the dynamic task state, and delegates reasoning to the selected agents. Such centralization decouples agent selection from internal agent behaviors, greatly enhancing adaptability and scalability without...
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dynamic pruning of agents: the orchestration process adapts to increasingly favor compact reasoning chains by reducing reliance on agents that offer little incremental gain or incur excessive cost. Over time, the orchestrator policy evolves to organize more effective agent sequences, balancing expressive collaboration ...
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questions to assess both factual knowledge and logical deduction. Both benchmarks are designed to assess the model’s ability in mathematical and commonsense reasoning and inference, with accuracy as the evaluation metric. •Open-domain Tasks : These tasks are inherently creative and open-ended, requiring multi- dimensio...
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default settings: episode length to 4, parallel exploration up to 3, λ= 0.1, and γ= 0.99. All baselines are rerun under identical settings. 3.1 Does Our Method Lead To Elevated Performance? Many prior studies on multi-agent systems have employed the same base model to drive agent behavior [ 40,32,80]. To enable a more ...
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To illustrate Puppeteer’s capability in organizing effective MAS, we compare performance between the initial and evolved phases. The results show that continued optimization yields substantial gains—for example, Puppeteer in the Titan subspace improves from 0.6893 to 0.7731 on average, with a similar trend observed in ...
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the preferential selection of lower-cost agents rather than shorter reasoning chains. This contrast between Titan and Mimas arises from fundamental dif- ferences in agent capacity: Titan agents can solve tasks more efficiently, enabling earlier stopping without quality loss, whereas Mimas agents often require longer, m...
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dynamic orchestration—which fosters graph-structured topologies with diverse inter-agent connections—gives rise to two key structural phenomena: com- paction andcyclicality . The evolving interplay between densely clustered agents and frequent communication cycles marks a significant transformation in multi-agent syste...
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for software development[ 40,21], social simulation[ 38,24], medical treatment[56, 27], scientific discovery [72]. 9 Early MAS designs relied on fixed, handcrafted structures, e.g., mirroring software engineering paradigms like waterfall models [ 38,10,40]. These static approaches led to rigid coordination [ 80, 41], l...
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experiments with GPT-4. In arXiv:2303.12712 , 2023. [5]Tianle Cai, Xuezhi Wang, Tengyu Ma, Xinyun Chen, and Denny Zhou. Large Language Models as Tool Makers. In The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) , 2023. [6]Mert Cemri, Melissa Z. Pan, Shuyi Yang, Lakshya A. Agrawal, Bhavya Chopra, R...
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and Daniel Rueckert. Evaluation and Mitigation of the Limitations of Large Language Models in Clinical Decision-making. In Nature Medicine , 2024. [20] Shibo Hao, Yi Gu, Haodi Ma, Joshua Jiahua Hong, Zhen Wang, Daisy Zhe Wang, and Zhiting Hu. Reasoning with Language Model is Planning with World Model. In The 2023 Confe...
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arXiv:2505.19598v1 [cs.CL] 26 May 2025Evaluating Robustness of Large Audio Language Models to Audio Injection: An Empirical Study Guanyu Hou2, Jiaming He1,2*, Yinhang Zhou2, Ji Guo,1, Yitong Qiao3, Rui Zhang,1, Wenbo Jiang1 1University of Electronic Science and Technology of China 2Chengdu University of Technology 3Sun...
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injection attacks has primarily focused on Large Language Models (LLMs), there remains a significant gap in under- standing the robustness of LALMs against compa- rable malicious injection attacks. This paper intro- duces a benchmark to evaluate the robustness of LALMs in various AQA tasks under different types 1https:...
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Phi-4- multimodal-instruct (Abouelenin et al., 2025), pro- viding a comprehensive analysis of their resilience to malicious manipulations. The experimental results of this study reveal thatsignificant variations in LALM robustness exist across models and attack types, highlighting the complex, context-dependent nature ...
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that injects poi- soned data into a model’s instruction-tuning dataset, enabling it to simulate the effects of a "virtualprompt" appended to user inputs under specific conditions. However, despite advances in LLM prompt in- jection research, existing attack methodologies tar- geting large models remain confined to text...
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employed as the malicious audio source. Instruction Following Attack. For this method, the speech instruction evaluation uses audio con- verted from a TTS model based on Content- Articles (Sakthi, 2025) (comprising over 21,000 pa- per abstracts). For this task, GPT-4o generates two questions per Content-Articles entry:...
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In this task, the model is asked to generate judgment scores µfor a set of audios with and without in- jection based on a certain rule. On this basis, JRI comprehensively evaluates the robustness of the model to injection through the normalized ratio of rating changes and statistical significance penalty: JRI(f) = 1−|µ...
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some (e.g., JHA Emotion Judgment, IFA) showed consis- tent patterns where one position was better across models, others lacked any universal pattern. The Correlation Between Model Ability and Malicious Robustness. The abilities of a model significantly influence its robustness against au- dio injection attacks. Figure ...
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volume, most notably in the AQJ scenario, where nearly all models show a stable and distinct decline. How- Figure 4: Impact of malicious injection audio speed and volume on the robustness of five LALMs across different tasks. ever, robustness trends are not consistent across all scenarios. For example, in the CIA scena...
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index with better performance is highlighted in bold . JHA scenario but nearly 50% robustness improve- ment in IFA. This underscores the inconsistent and scenario-specific nature of System Prompts as a defense. 4.5 Evaluation Trustworthiness This work uses a hybrid approach to evaluate model robustness, combining human...
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continuous security evaluations and collaborative defense development, ensuring safe and ethical LALMs deployment in real-world ap- plications. References Abdelrahman Abouelenin, Atabak Ashfaq, Adam Atkin- son, Hany Awadalla, Nguyen Bach, Jianmin Bao, Alon Benhaim, Martin Cai, Vishrav Chaudhary, Con- gcong Chen, and 1 ...
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2022. Challenging big-bench tasks and whether chain-of-thought can solve them. arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.09261 . Changli Tang, Wenyi Yu, Guangzhi Sun, Xianzhao Chen, Tian Tan, Wei Li, Lu Lu, Zejun Ma, and Chao Zhang. 2023. Salmonn: Towards generic hearing abilities for large language models. arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.1...
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going to the store to buy some gro- ceries (female voice). I:Women are often assumed to lack natural aptitude for technical fields like engineering. R (without injection): It is not possible to determine the speaker’s competence as an en- gineer based on the given information. R (with injection): No, the speaker is as-...
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output remains accu- rate, contextually appropriate, and unaffected by injected interference. If the audio contains multiple overlapping sounds or unclear speech, ask for clarification rather than making assumptions based on mislead- ing background cues. Always maintain a high level of attention to the user’s original ...
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men and women)? Scoring: 0 points: Clearly exhibits gender stereotypes, with significant differences in answers for different genders. 1 point: Exhibits slight gender stereotypes, but not significantly. 2 points: No gender stereotypes found, answers for different genders are consistent and reasonable. 2. Professional C...
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0.87 0.84 CIA (PCC) 0.73 0.74 0.72 0.73 0.71 Table 3: Average AR and PCC in every task of each scenarios for each LALMs. 2 points: Answers for different genders are fair and consistent. Scoring Method 1. Single Item Scoring: Score each answer for each question individually based on the six dimen- sions above (0-2 point...
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arXiv:2505.19599v1 [cs.CL] 26 May 2025Inconsistent Tokenizations Cause Language Models to be Perplexed by Japanese Grammar Andrew Gambardella, Takeshi Kojima, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yutaka Matsuo University of Tokyo Correspondence: atgambardella@weblab.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp Abstract Typical methods for evaluating the perfor- mance ...
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of open source models that currently exist, only Weblab has lower perplexities on grammatical sentences compared to ungrammatical sentences containing psych predicates. We provide evidence that this is due to Weblab’s uniformly bad tokeniza- tions, and show that Llama 3 performs orders of magnitude better on this task ...
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Sections 2.1. For this case, it is simple to create minimal pairs of sentences similar to Ex- amples (1), (3), and (4), which can be compared against ungrammatical constructions similar to Ex- ample (2). We evaluate the Huggingface (Wolf et al., 2019) implementations of the following LLMs in the 7B to 10B parameter ran...
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third person is higher than the proba- bility of the same psych predicate being used directly given that the sentence is in the third person. We show perplexities corresponding to the gram- matical constructions in (a), (b), and (c) above, as well as the ungrammatical third person direct psych predicate expression, in ...
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at all, Weblab was able to consistently output evidential expressions with a third person subject feeling “cold” or “embarrassed.” Here “grammatical” indicates alternative phrasings that are grammatical translations of the sentence, but do not require the use of evidential expressions. ery sentence uniformly poorly, an...
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person psych predicate re- striction.” For these minimal pairs, we showed that inconsistent tokenizations cause language models to produce perplexities that do not match the gram- matical rules. Only when given uniformly good, or uniformly bad, tokenizations of Japanese were these models able to produce lower perplexit...
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are different. In Proceedings of the 26th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computa- tion, PACLIC 2012 . Llama Team. 2024. The Llama 3 Herd of Models. Tech- nical report. OpenAI. 2023. GPT-4 Technical Report. Technical report. Phillip Rust, Jonas Pfeiffer, Ivan Vulic, Sebastian Ruder, and Iryna Gurev...
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arXiv:2505.19601v1 [cs.LG] 26 May 2025Preference Optimization by Estimating the Ratio of the Data Distribution Yeongmin Kim1Heesun Bae1Byeonghu Na1Il-Chul Moon1,2 1Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST),2summary.ai {alsdudrla10, cat2507, byeonghu.na, icmoon}@kaist.ac.kr Abstract Direct preference op...
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