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Shenghao Jin

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Collaborative Few-Step Distillation and Low-Bit Quantization for Wan2.2 Dual-Expert Video Diffusion Models

Large video diffusion models achieve strong visual quality but remain expensive to deploy because each sample requires many denoising steps and a large resident parameter footprint. This paper studies a deployment-oriented compression pipeline for Wan2.2-T2V-A14B by combining few-step distribution-matching distillation with low-bit quantization. The pipeline follows the model's dual-expert denoising route, calibrates the high-noise and low-noise branches separately, protects sensitive entrance layers, and uses HiF4-style low-bit representation to improve dynamic-range coverage. Quantization is calibrated on the distilled few-step student rather than on the original long-step trajectory, reducing activation-distribution mismatch during inference. The proposed co-design keeps the quantized model close to the same-step full-precision model and surpasses the original full-precision baseline at 8 and 20 steps on average. The 20-step setting gives the best quality-efficiency trade-off in the tested configurations.

cs.CV

Linear Dynamics in the RLVR Training of Large Language Models

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has driven significant performance gains in reasoning-oriented large language models (LLMs), yet its internal training dynamics remain largely a black box. In this work, we perform a comprehensive trajectory-level analysis of RLVR and uncover a striking regularity: across various model families, RL algorithms, and training configurations, RLVR consistently enters a robust linear regime, where both parameter weights and output log-probabilities, measured rigorously via teacher-forced evaluation, evolve in a highly linear manner ($R^2 > 0.7$). Through controlled experiments and theoretical analysis, we demonstrate that this linearity is not a coincidence, but stems from the high-variance, noisy nature of RLVR training signals, which act as a low-pass filter to concentrate optimization along a stable, low-dimensional drift. Moreover, we show that this linear structure is not merely descriptive but powerfully predictive and actionable. Specifically, weight-space extrapolation matches the performance of standard RL optimization while achieving a 6.1x training speedup through periodic re-grounding. Meanwhile, output-space extrapolation serves as a lightweight intervention that effectively bypasses late-stage model collapse, consistently outperforming standard RL across mathematical and coding benchmarks, with an average performance improvement of 4.2%. Our code is available at https://github.com/Miaow-Lab/RLVR-Linearity.

cs.LG

BWTA: Accurate and Efficient Binarized Transformer by Algorithm-Hardware Co-design

Ultra low-bit quantization brings substantial efficiency for Transformer-based models, but the accuracy degradation and limited GPU support hinder its wide usage. In this paper, we analyze zero-point distortion in binarization and propose a Binary Weights & Ternary Activations (BWTA) quantization scheme, which projects tiny values to zero and preserves the accuracy of extremely low-bit models. For training, we propose Smooth Multi-Stage Quantization, combining a Levelwise Degradation Strategy and a Magnitude-Alignment Projection Factor to enable stable and fast convergence. For inference, we develop a BWTA MatMul CUDA kernel with instruction-level parallel bit-packing and comprehensive binary/ternary MatMul implementations for both linear and attention operators, allowing seamless integration across Transformer architectures. Experiments show that BWTA approaches full-precision performance for BERT, with an average 3.5% drop on GLUE and less than 2% drop on five tasks, and achieves comparable perplexity and accuracy for LLMs. In efficiency, it delivers 16 to 24 times kernel-level speedup over FP16 on NVIDIA GPUs, and 216 to 330 tokens/s end-to-end prefill speedup with lower memory footprint on LLMs. As an algorithm-hardware co-design, BWTA demonstrates practical, low-latency ultra-low-bit inference without sacrificing model quality.

cs.LG

Advances and Innovations in the Multi-Agent Robotic System (MARS) Challenge

Recent advancements in multimodal large language models and vision-languageaction models have significantly driven progress in Embodied AI. As the field transitions toward more complex task scenarios, multi-agent system frameworks are becoming essential for achieving scalable, efficient, and collaborative solutions. This shift is fueled by three primary factors: increasing agent capabilities, enhancing system efficiency through task delegation, and enabling advanced human-agent interactions. To address the challenges posed by multi-agent collaboration, we propose the Multi-Agent Robotic System (MARS) Challenge, held at the NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on SpaVLE. The competition focuses on two critical areas: planning and control, where participants explore multi-agent embodied planning using vision-language models (VLMs) to coordinate tasks and policy execution to perform robotic manipulation in dynamic environments. By evaluating solutions submitted by participants, the challenge provides valuable insights into the design and coordination of embodied multi-agent systems, contributing to the future development of advanced collaborative AI systems.

cs.RO

Daytime sub-ambient radiative cooling with vivid structural colors mediated by coupled nanocavities

Daytime radiative cooling is a promising passive cooling technology for combating global warming. Existing daytime radiative coolers usually show whitish colors due to their broadband high solar reflectivity, which severely impedes applications in real-life situations with aesthetic demands and effective display. However, there is a trade-off between vivid colors and high cooling performance because colors are often produced by absorption of visible light, decreasing net cooling power. To break this trade-off, we design multilayered structures with coupled nanocavities and produce structural colors with high cooling performance. Using this design, we can obtain colorful radiative coolers which show a larger color gamut (occupying 17.7% sRGB area) than reported ones. We further fabricate colorful multilayered radiative coolers (CMRCs) and demonstrate they have temperature drops of 3.4 - 4.4 degrees on average based on outdoor experiments. These CMRCs are promising in thermal management of electronic/optoelectronic devices and outdoor facilities.

physics.optics