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preprint2026arXiv

Minimal-Intervention KV Retention via Set-Conditioned Diversity

KV-cache compression at small budgets is a crowded design space spanning cache representation, head-wise routing, compression cadence, decoding behavior, and within-budget scoring. We study seven mechanisms across these five families under matched mean cache on long-form mathematical reasoning (MATH-500~\cite{hendrycks2021math}) with two distilled-reasoning models (Qwen-7B and Llama-8B variants of DeepSeek-R1-Distill~\cite{deepseek2025r1}) at budgets $b \in \{64, 128\}$. All seven were rejected. We then propose $α$, a one-function modification to the TriAttention~\cite{mao2026triattention} retention scorer that replaces argmax-top-$k$ with greedy facility-location-inspired selection under a V-space redundancy penalty controlled by a single weight $λ$. A pre-registered protocol tunes $λ$ on a frozen development split and confirms on a disjoint held-out split; with $λ= 0.5$, $α$ clears Bonferroni on two of the four (model, budget) cells (Qwen $b{=}128$ and Llama $b{=}64$), no cell is significantly negative, and the pre-registered Branch~A triggers. The finding is asymmetric: a minimal scoring modification beat heavier structural redesigns in this regime, and the combined matched-memory, sympy-graded, held-out confirmation protocol is the evidence standard that made the asymmetry visible.

preprint2026arXiv

When Does Sparse MoE Help in Vision? The Role of Backbone Compute Leverage in Sparse Routing

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) networks promise favorable accuracy-compute trade-offs, yet practical vision deployments are hindered by expert collapse and limited end-to-end efficiency gains. We study when sparse top-$k$ routing with hard capacity constraints helps in vision classification, evaluated under multi-seed protocols on four benchmarks (CIFAR-10/100, Tiny-ImageNet, ImageNet-1K). We observe a \emph{compute-leverage pattern}: positive accuracy gaps require a substantial fraction $ρ$ of total FLOPs to be routed; at ImageNet scale this is necessary but not sufficient, as multi-expert routing ($k \geq 2$) is additionally required. Two controlled experiments isolate these factors. A hidden-size sweep on CIFAR-10 yields both predicted sign reversals across standard and depthwise backbones, ruling out backbone family as the active variable. An ImageNet-1K ablation that varies only top-$k$ -- holding architecture, initialization, and $ρ$ fixed -- reverses the gap from positive to negative across all five seeds. A per-sample variant of Soft MoE that softmaxes over experts rather than the batch rescues CIFAR-100 above the dense baseline, identifying batch-axis dispatch as the dominant failure mode in per-sample CNN settings. Code and aggregate results: https://github.com/libophd/sparse-moe-vision-rho.

preprint2022arXiv

Scaling Knowledge Graph Embedding Models

Developing scalable solutions for training Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for link prediction tasks is challenging due to the high data dependencies which entail high computational cost and huge memory footprint. We propose a new method for scaling training of knowledge graph embedding models for link prediction to address these challenges. Towards this end, we propose the following algorithmic strategies: self-sufficient partitions, constraint-based negative sampling, and edge mini-batch training. Both, partitioning strategy and constraint-based negative sampling, avoid cross partition data transfer during training. In our experimental evaluation, we show that our scaling solution for GNN-based knowledge graph embedding models achieves a 16x speed up on benchmark datasets while maintaining a comparable model performance as non-distributed methods on standard metrics.

preprint2021arXiv

Knowledge Graph Embedding using Graph Convolutional Networks with Relation-Aware Attention

Knowledge graph embedding methods learn embeddings of entities and relations in a low dimensional space which can be used for various downstream machine learning tasks such as link prediction and entity matching. Various graph convolutional network methods have been proposed which use different types of information to learn the features of entities and relations. However, these methods assign the same weight (importance) to the neighbors when aggregating the information, ignoring the role of different relations with the neighboring entities. To this end, we propose a relation-aware graph attention model that leverages relation information to compute different weights to the neighboring nodes for learning embeddings of entities and relations. We evaluate our proposed approach on link prediction and entity matching tasks. Our experimental results on link prediction on three datasets (one proprietary and two public) and results on unsupervised entity matching on one proprietary dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of the relation-aware attention.

preprint2021arXiv

Relation-aware Graph Attention Model With Adaptive Self-adversarial Training

This paper describes an end-to-end solution for the relationship prediction task in heterogeneous, multi-relational graphs. We particularly address two building blocks in the pipeline, namely heterogeneous graph representation learning and negative sampling. Existing message passing-based graph neural networks use edges either for graph traversal and/or selection of message encoding functions. Ignoring the edge semantics could have severe repercussions on the quality of embeddings, especially when dealing with two nodes having multiple relations. Furthermore, the expressivity of the learned representation depends on the quality of negative samples used during training. Although existing hard negative sampling techniques can identify challenging negative relationships for optimization, new techniques are required to control false negatives during training as false negatives could corrupt the learning process. To address these issues, first, we propose RelGNN -- a message passing-based heterogeneous graph attention model. In particular, RelGNN generates the states of different relations and leverages them along with the node states to weigh the messages. RelGNN also adopts a self-attention mechanism to balance the importance of attribute features and topological features for generating the final entity embeddings. Second, we introduce a parameter-free negative sampling technique -- adaptive self-adversarial (ASA) negative sampling. ASA reduces the false-negative rate by leveraging positive relationships to effectively guide the identification of true negative samples. Our experimental evaluation demonstrates that RelGNN optimized by ASA for relationship prediction improves state-of-the-art performance across established benchmarks as well as on a real industrial dataset.