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For computational devices, talk isn't cheap: Research reveals unavoidable energy costs across all communication channels

Every task we perform on a computer—whether number crunching, watching a video, or typing out an article—requires different ...
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

AI-Based Impedance Encoding-Decoding Method for Online Impedance Network Construction of Wind Farms

Abstract: The impedance network (IN) model is gaining popularity in the oscillation analysis of wind farms. However, the construction of such an IN model requires impedance curves of each wind turbine ...
IEEE

An Image Semantic Communication System Based on GAN and Relative Position-Encoding

Abstract: In image semantic communication, the complex wireless channel environment leads to the loss of image details and performance degradation during transmission. To address this issue, we ...
GitHub

FastVLM: Efficient Vision Encoding for Vision Language Models

We introduce FastViTHD, a novel hybrid vision encoder designed to output fewer tokens and significantly reduce encoding time for high-resolution images. Our smallest variant outperforms ...