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Hong Nie

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arXiv2026

Seeing What Matters, Verifying What Pays: Load-Adaptive Speculative Decoding for Vision-Language Models

Speculative decoding accelerates vision-language model (VLM) inference without altering the output distribution, yet two factors limit its gains. Existing drafters either lack the image evidence required for visually grounded tokens or pay to condition on every visual token, although a short draft block typically depends on only a few image regions. Moreover, the value of verifying additional candidates varies with GPU load, so no fixed verification structure is efficient across serving conditions. We present Uni-LaSpec, a block-parallel speculative decoding framework that addresses both factors. To improve draft quality, Uni-LaSpec reuses the verifier's own attention: the query retained from the preceding verification ranks the cached, int8-quantized visual keys, and a cross-layer vote selects a few visual tokens that the drafter fuses through gated cross-attention. Acceptance-aware training further weights each draft position by its contribution to the accepted prefix. To allocate verification, a marginal-cost criterion selects the structure per request and per round: draft trees exploit idle verifier capacity under light load, whereas a dynamic head truncates linear drafts under heavy load. Across six VLMs from three model families and 17 text and multimodal benchmarks, selecting eight visual tokens retains at least 98.6% of the acceptance obtained from the full image at sub-millisecond selection cost. With greedy decoding at concurrency one, Uni-LaSpec achieves up to 5.11x text and 3.24x multimodal throughput over autoregressive decoding. Across six load levels and three GPU types, it outperforms autoregressive decoding in every setting and matches or exceeds the best fixed verification strategy in 123 of 144 settings; under bursty arrivals, it reduces mean end-to-end latency by 47.6% relative to linear verification.

cs.AI↗

arXiv2025

RIPCN: A Road Impedance Principal Component Network for Probabilistic Traffic Flow Forecasting

Accurate traffic flow forecasting is crucial for intelligent transportation services such as navigation and ride-hailing. In such applications, uncertainty estimation in forecasting is important because it helps evaluate traffic risk levels, assess forecast reliability, and provide timely warnings. As a result, probabilistic traffic flow forecasting (PTFF) has gained significant attention, as it produces both point forecasts and uncertainty estimates. However, existing PTFF approaches still face two key challenges: (1) how to uncover and model the causes of traffic flow uncertainty for reliable forecasting, and (2) how to capture the spatiotemporal correlations of uncertainty for accurate prediction. To address these challenges, we propose RIPCN, a Road Impedance Principal Component Network that integrates domain-specific transportation theory with spatiotemporal principal component learning for PTFF. RIPCN introduces a dynamic impedance evolution network that captures directional traffic transfer patterns driven by road congestion level and flow variability, revealing the direct causes of uncertainty and enhancing both reliability and interpretability. In addition, a principal component network is designed to forecast the dominant eigenvectors of future flow covariance, enabling the model to capture spatiotemporal uncertainty correlations. This design allows for accurate and efficient uncertainty estimation while also improving point prediction performance. Experimental results on real-world datasets show that our approach outperforms existing probabilistic forecasting methods.

cs.LG↗

arXiv2025

Few-Shot Identity Adaptation for 3D Talking Heads via Global Gaussian Field

Reconstruction and rendering-based talking head synthesis methods achieve high-quality results with strong identity preservation but are limited by their dependence on identity-specific models. Each new identity requires training from scratch, incurring high computational costs and reduced scalability compared to generative model-based approaches. To overcome this limitation, we propose FIAG, a novel 3D speaking head synthesis framework that enables efficient identity-specific adaptation using only a few training footage. FIAG incorporates Global Gaussian Field, which supports the representation of multiple identities within a shared field, and Universal Motion Field, which captures the common motion dynamics across diverse identities. Benefiting from the shared facial structure information encoded in the Global Gaussian Field and the general motion priors learned in the motion field, our framework enables rapid adaptation from canonical identity representations to specific ones with minimal data. Extensive comparative and ablation experiments demonstrate that our method outperforms existing state-of-the-art approaches, validating both the effectiveness and generalizability of the proposed framework. Code is available at: \textit{https://github.com/gme-hong/FIAG}.

cs.CV↗