In overparameterized linear regression, many weak spectral directions act like a ridge penalty on the signal-bearing spectrum; negative ridge is the natural correction, pushing filters above one. The stable negative-ridge endpoint, however, is structurally limited: its pole must…
Speculative decoding, in which a lightweight draft model first generates a draft sequence that is then verified in parallel by the target model, has become a prevalent paradigm for accelerating large language model inference. Recent work such as DFlash further boosts drafting eff…
Principal component regression (PCR) regularizes high-dimensional prediction by choosing a spectral cutoff, but rank selection cannot correct systematic inflation of the retained empirical eigenvalues. We study clean Gaussian random designs in which the aggregate covariance tail…