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Publications (8)

cs.SD2025

Step-Audio-AQAA: a Fully End-to-End Expressive Large Audio Language Model

Ailin Huang, Bingxin Li, Bruce Wang +73

Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) have significantly advanced intelligent human-computer interaction, yet their reliance on text-based outputs limits their ability to generate na…

cs.NI2025

InfiniteHBD: Building Datacenter-Scale High-Bandwidth Domain for LLM with Optical Circuit Switching Transceivers

Chenchen Shou, Guyue Liu, Hao Nie +11

Scaling Large Language Model (LLM) training relies on multi-dimensional parallelism, where High-Bandwidth Domains (HBDs) are critical for communication-intensive parallelism like T…

cs.CL2026

Step 3.5 Flash: Open Frontier-Level Intelligence with 11B Active Parameters

Ailin Huang, Ang Li, Aobo Kong +213

We introduce Step 3.5 Flash, a sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model that bridges frontier-level agentic intelligence and computational efficiency. We focus on what matters most wh…

cs.CV2025

VisAlgae 2023: A Dataset and Challenge for Algae Detection in Microscopy Images

Mingxuan Sun, Juntao Jiang, Zhiqiang Yang +21

Microalgae, vital for ecological balance and economic sectors, present challenges in detection due to their diverse sizes and conditions. This paper summarizes the second "Vision M…

cs.CV2025

Step-Video-T2V Technical Report: The Practice, Challenges, and Future of Video Foundation Model

Guoqing Ma, Haoyang Huang, Kun Yan +112

We present Step-Video-T2V, a state-of-the-art text-to-video pre-trained model with 30B parameters and the ability to generate videos up to 204 frames in length. A deep compression…

cs.LG2025

Step-3 is Large yet Affordable: Model-system Co-design for Cost-effective Decoding

StepFun, :, Bin Wang +195

Large language models (LLMs) face low hardware efficiency during decoding, especially for long-context reasoning tasks. This paper introduces Step-3, a 321B-parameter VLM with hard…