Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate strong multilingual capabilities but are costly to deploy due to their size and computational demands. To mitigate this, compression techniques such as pruning and quantization are widely used. However, these methods face two key limitations: (1) they assume access to high-quality instruction or calibration data, which is often unavailable for low-resource languages; and (2) they aim to preserve multilingual generality, making them inefficient for language-specific applications. We introduce LangCompress, a language-aware compression framework that enhances existing compression methods for targeted deployment. LangCompress is method-agnostic and improves state-of-the-art pruning and quantization approaches. It features two core components: an iterative self-supervised pipeline for generating instruction data in the target language, and a vocabulary simplification strategy that reduces the LM head to focus on key tokens. Experiments on perplexity, translation, and summarization tasks show that LangCompress improves performance in the target language. The code and data are publicly available.

Inference with modern Large Language Models (LLMs) is both computationally expensive and time-consuming. Speculative decoding has emerged as a promising solution, but existing approaches face key limitations: training-based methods require a draft model that is challenging to obtain and lacks generalizability, while training-free methods offer limited speedup gains. In this work, we present Spectra, a novel framework for accelerating LLM inference without the need for additional training or modification to the original LLM. Spectra introduces two new techniques for efficiently utilizing internal and external speculation, each outperforming corresponding state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods independently. When combined, these techniques achieve up to a 4.08x speedup across various benchmarks and LLM architectures, significantly surpassing existing training-free approaches. The implementation of Spectra is publicly available.

The growing volume of scientific literature in polymer science presents a significant challenge for researchers attempting to extract and annotate domain-specific entities, such as polymer names, material properties, and related information. Manual annotation of these documents is both time-consuming and prone to error due to the complexity of scientific language. To address this, we introduce PolyMinder, an automated support system designed to assist polymer scientists in extracting and annotating polymer-related entities and their relationships from scientific documents. The system utilizes recent advanced Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Relation Extraction (RE) models tailored to the polymer domain. PolyMinder streamlines the annotation process by providing a web-based interface where users can visualize, verify, and refine the extracted information before finalizing the annotations. The system’s source code is made publicly available to facilitate further research and development in this field. Our system can be accessed through the following URL: https://www.jaist.ac.jp/is/labs/nguyen-lab/systems/polyminder