cs.IR · 2026-08-23 · No. 93

Information Retrieval, 2026-08-23.

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01 — The papers

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    Daedalus-150M: A Convolution-Attention Hybrid Designed for CPU Inference

    Christos Koutsiaris

    cs.IR · cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.LG

    Small language models are usually built like large ones and then squeezed onto a CPU afterwards. We did the opposite: we fixed the target first, one user, one token at a time, 4-bit weights, ordinary CPU, and chose the architecture to suit it. The result keeps full attention in only 6 of its 18 blocks. The other 12 use short convolutions whose memory is two timesteps wide no matter how long the conversation gets, so two thirds of the network...

    arxiv.org/abs/2608.20210 · PDF

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