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The widespread distribution of Large Language Models (LLMs) through public platforms like Hugging Face introduces significant security challenges. While these platforms perform basic security scans, they often fail to detect subtle…

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Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown impressive performance across multi-modal tasks by encoding images into thousands of tokens. However, the large number of image tokens results in significant computational overhead, and the…

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Mixed-Precision Quantization (MPQ) liberates Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) from the Out-Of-Memory (OOM) bottleneck and has garnered increasing research attention. However, conventional methods either rely on costly differentiable optimization…