How DeepSeek’s DSpark Makes LLMs 85% Faster Without Retraining

DeepSeek has introduced DSpark, an open-source speculative decoding method that accelerates LLM inference by up to 85% ...
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Local LLM Performance Verification for 16GB VRAM or Less Part 7: Was the "Coder-Specialized Model" Just for Show? How 4 Popular Models Were Completely Defeated by the Benchmark ...

This time, I have gathered four open models that claim to be "coding-specialized." While the lineup is varied, including Qwen-based and Gemma fine-tuned models, they all share one goal: to verify if ...
XDA Developers on MSN

I tested Google's new Gemma 4 12B on my 8GB GPU, and now I don't want to go back to smaller models

Not bad for limited hardware ...
VentureBeat

Context compression finally works in production: new research cuts LLM input 16x without the accuracy hit

Context windows are becoming a computational bottleneck. The longer an agent runs, the more tokens accumulate from retrieved documents, reasoning traces and conversation history, and the more memory ...
IEEE

Visual Evidence-aware for Object Hallucinations Rectification in LLM-based Video Captioning

Abstract: Recent neural models for video captioning are typically built using a framework that combines a pre-trained visual encoder with a large language model(LLM) decoder. However, large language ...
EDN

MLPerf and the rise of latency-aware LLM benchmarking

Any discussion of modern AI system performance must include MLCommons and its MLPerf benchmark suite, which has become the industry’s de facto standard for measuring machine learning performance.
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Multimodal LLMs That Ditched the Encoder — Reading the "Direct Projection" Architecture of Gemma 4 12B

On June 3, 2026, Google DeepMind released Gemma 4 12B (where 12B = 12G = 12 billion parameters). It is a model capable of handling images, audio, and video, making it an AI that can process multiple ...
GSM Arena

MediaTek unveils Dimensity 8550 with LLM Booster and support for Gemini Nano V3

Earlier this year, MediaTek unveiled the Dimensity 8500, a 4nm (TSMC N4P) chipset with all-big CPU cores (eight Cortex-A725) and a Mali-G720 MC8 GPU. Now the company is refreshing that chip as the ...
GitHub

OneCAT: Decoder-Only Auto-Regressive Model for Unified Understanding and Generation

We introduce OneCAT, a unified multimodal model that seamlessly integrates understanding, generation, and editing within a novel, pure decoder-only transformer architecture. Our framework uniquely ...