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SQS: Bayesian DNN Compression through Sparse Quantized Sub-distributions

SQS unifies weight pruning and low-bit quantization via Bayesian variational learning, compressing Llama3.2 and Qwen2.5 at higher rates with comparable accuracy.

SQS introduces a unified Bayesian variational framework performing simultaneous pruning and low-bit quantization, using a spike-and-slab prior for sparsity and Gaussian Mixture Models to model quantized weights. The authors derive an efficient approximation for the intractable objective and provide a consistency result for the variational approach. Experiments on ResNet, BERT-base, Llama3.2, and Qwen2.5 show higher compression rates than prior baselines with comparable performance drops.

Hugging Face daily papers · 9d agoAI research

Active Adaptation, Not Static Defense: Temporal Dynamics of Preventative Steering in Adversarial Fine-Tuning

Researchers analyze why Preventative Steering protects LLMs against malicious fine-tuning, finding active adaptation drives protection, and propose Progressive Intensity Scheduling.

The paper studies Preventative Steering, a training-time defense that injects undesirable-trait persona vectors during adversarial fine-tuning and removes them at evaluation time. Temporal analysis shows protection emerges from an early compensatory adaptation phase followed by a steady-state phase, with attention output projections acting as the dominant residual-write route for defensive updates. Intervention Delta Preservation experiments show that preserving or reinjecting weight offsets fails to maintain protection, indicating reliance on active adaptation rather than a static defense. The proposed Progressive Intensity Scheduling improves safety robustness on Qwen2.5 and Gemma-3 while reducing harmful trait expression.

arXiv cs.CR · 7d agoAI safety & security1

Latest open artifacts (#24): Motif-3, GLM-5.3, Hy4-preview and open model licenses

Interconnects surveys new open models—Motif-3, GLM-5.3, Hy4-preview—while analyzing a licensing split: Western labs opening up, Chinese frontier labs getting restrictive.

The roundup covers Motif-3 (MIT license, strong scores for its size), GLM-5.3 (switched from MIT to a custom license with a $10 billion revenue threshold and undefined 'affiliates' clause requiring Z.AI security review), and Tencent's Hy4-preview (competent but prone to overthinking). It also notes dots3-note-prev from RedNote/Xiaohongshu (won IMO 2026 with a perfect score), Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (125B-A6B with GDN and Qwen Sparse Attention), NVIDIA Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16, and Ling-3.0-flash. The core theme: Google and Meta adopted Apache 2.0 while Chinese frontier labs (Zhipu, Kimi K3, MiniMax M3) adopted restrictive commercial licenses.

Interconnects · 8d agoAI research