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Taesik Gong

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preprint2026arXiv

From Volume to Value: Preference-Aligned Memory Construction for On-Device RAG

With the rapid emergence of personal AI agents based on Large Language Models (LLMs), implementing them on-device has become essential for privacy and responsiveness. To handle the inherently personal and context-dependent nature of real-world requests, such agents must ground their generation in device-resident personal context. However, under tight memory budgets, the core bottleneck is what to store so that retrieval remains aligned with the user. We propose EPIC (Efficient Preference-aligned Index Construction), which focuses on user preferences as a compact and stable form of personal context and integrates them throughout the RAG pipeline. EPIC selectively retains preference-relevant information from raw data and aligns retrieval toward preference-aligned contexts. Across four benchmarks covering conversations, debates, explanations, and recommendations, EPIC reduces indexing memory by 2,404 times, improves preference-following accuracy by 20.17 percentage points, and achieves 33.33 times lower retrieval latency over the best-performing baseline. In our on-device experiment, EPIC maintains a memory footprint under 1 MB with 29.35 ms/query latency in streaming updates.

preprint2026arXiv

Premover: Fast Vision-Language-Action Control by Acting Before Instructions Are Complete

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies are typically evaluated as if the user had finished typing or speaking before the robot begins acting. In real deployment, however, users take several seconds to enter a request, leaving the policy idle for a substantial fraction of the interaction. We introduce Premover, a lightweight module that converts this idle window into useful precomputation. Premover keeps the VLA backbone frozen and attaches two small projection heads, one for image patches, one for language tokens, that map an intermediate layer of the backbone into a shared space. The resulting focus map is supervised by simulator-rendered target-object segmentation masks and applied as a per-patch reweighting of the next step's image tokens. A single scalar readiness threshold, trained jointly from streaming prefixes, decides when the policy should begin acting. On the LIBERO benchmark suite, Premover reduces mean wall-clock time from 34.0 to 29.4 seconds, a 13.6% reduction, while matching the full-prompt baseline's success rate (95.1% vs. 95.0%); naive premoving, by contrast, collapses to 66.4%.

preprint2023arXiv

NOTE: Robust Continual Test-time Adaptation Against Temporal Correlation

Test-time adaptation (TTA) is an emerging paradigm that addresses distributional shifts between training and testing phases without additional data acquisition or labeling cost; only unlabeled test data streams are used for continual model adaptation. Previous TTA schemes assume that the test samples are independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.), even though they are often temporally correlated (non-i.i.d.) in application scenarios, e.g., autonomous driving. We discover that most existing TTA methods fail dramatically under such scenarios. Motivated by this, we present a new test-time adaptation scheme that is robust against non-i.i.d. test data streams. Our novelty is mainly two-fold: (a) Instance-Aware Batch Normalization (IABN) that corrects normalization for out-of-distribution samples, and (b) Prediction-balanced Reservoir Sampling (PBRS) that simulates i.i.d. data stream from non-i.i.d. stream in a class-balanced manner. Our evaluation with various datasets, including real-world non-i.i.d. streams, demonstrates that the proposed robust TTA not only outperforms state-of-the-art TTA algorithms in the non-i.i.d. setting, but also achieves comparable performance to those algorithms under the i.i.d. assumption. Code is available at https://github.com/TaesikGong/NOTE.