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Aug 24, 2026Β·arxiv.org

FreeToken: Making the Local Machine an Elastic Inference Platform

Most local serving systems treat a personal computer as a small GPU that must fit the model. FreeToken starts from a different premise. The machine is a unified, elastic inference platform whose CPU, GPU, and interconnect can be orchestrated continuously as workloads and available resources change.

The system is designed for Mixture-of-Experts models and for agentic workloads that repeatedly edit context and call tools. Its core techniques include bandwidth-adaptive execution (deciding in real time whether missing experts should be moved to the GPU or run on the CPU), semantic-aware state caching at natural boundaries, full-layer double buffering during prefill, and elastic reallocation of GPU memory between KV cache and experts.

Jun 12, 2026Β·arxiv.org

Goodbye A/B Testing: LLMs Simulate Real Consumer Responses

Directly asking LLMs for numerical ratings (like purchase intent on a 1–5 scale) usually produces unrealistic, overly positive, or narrowly distributed answers that don’t match real human data.

This paper introduces Semantic Similarity Rating (SSR)β€” a simple method that first lets the LLM generate free-text reasoning about a product, then maps that text to a realistic Likert distribution using embedding similarity to anchor statements.