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most citedA Reparameterized Discrete Diffusion Model for Text Generation

9 citations · 26 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.CL2026

DreamReasoner-8B: Block-Size Curriculum Learning for Diffusion Reasoning Models

Zirui Wu, Lin Zheng, Jiacheng Ye +5

Block diffusion language models accelerate decoding through parallel block-wise denoising, yet whether they can be reliably scaled for long chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning remains…

cs.CL2026

Scratchpad Patching: Decoupling Compute from Patch Size in Byte-Level Language Models

Lin Zheng, Vasilisa Bashlovkina, Timothy Dozat +3

Tokenizer-free language models eliminate the tokenizer step of the language modeling pipeline by operating directly on bytes; patch-based variants further aggregate contiguous byte…

cs.CL2026

Proxy Compression for Language Modeling

Lin Zheng, Xinyu Li, Qian Liu +2

Modern language models are trained almost exclusively on token sequences produced by a fixed tokenizer, an external lossless compressor often over UTF-8 byte sequences, thereby cou…

cs.CL2026

DreamOn: Diffusion Language Models For Code Infilling Beyond Fixed-size Canvas

Zirui Wu, Lin Zheng, Zhihui Xie +8

Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) present a compelling alternative to autoregressive models, offering flexible, any-order infilling without specialized prompting design. However, th…

cs.CL2025

Dream-Coder 7B: An Open Diffusion Language Model for Code

Zhihui Xie, Jiacheng Ye, Lin Zheng +8

We present Dream-Coder 7B, an open-source discrete diffusion language model for code generation that exhibits emergent any-order generation capabilities. Unlike traditional autoreg…

cs.CL2025

Dream 7B: Diffusion Large Language Models

Jiacheng Ye, Zhihui Xie, Lin Zheng +5

We introduce Dream 7B, the most powerful open diffusion large language model to date. Unlike autoregressive (AR) models that generate tokens sequentially, Dream 7B employs discrete…

cs.CL2024

Scaling Diffusion Language Models via Adaptation from Autoregressive Models

Shansan Gong, Shivam Agarwal, Yizhe Zhang +9

Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) have emerged as a promising new paradigm for text generative modeling, potentially addressing limitations of autoregressive (AR) models. However, c…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

SubgoalXL: Subgoal-based Expert Learning for Theorem Proving

Xueliang Zhao, Lin Zheng, Haige Bo +3

Formal theorem proving, a field at the intersection of mathematics and computer science, has seen renewed interest with advancements in large language models (LLMs). This paper int…

cs.CL2024

Diffusion of Thoughts: Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Diffusion Language Models

Jiacheng Ye, Shansan Gong, Liheng Chen +8

Recently, diffusion models have garnered significant interest in the field of text processing due to their many potential advantages compared to conventional autoregressive models.…

cs.CL2023

Linear Attention via Orthogonal Memory

Jun Zhang, Shuyang Jiang, Jiangtao Feng +2

Efficient attentions have greatly improved the computational efficiency of Transformers. However, most existing linear attention mechanisms suffer from an \emph{efficiency degradat…

cs.PL2023

Self-Infilling Code Generation

Lin Zheng, Jianbo Yuan, Zhi Zhang +2

This work introduces self-infilling code generation, a general framework that incorporates infilling operations into auto-regressive decoding. Our approach capitalizes on the obser…

cs.CL2023

Attentive Multi-Layer Perceptron for Non-autoregressive Generation

Shuyang Jiang, Jun Zhang, Jiangtao Feng +2

Autoregressive~(AR) generation almost dominates sequence generation for its efficacy. Recently, non-autoregressive~(NAR) generation gains increasing popularity for its efficiency a…

q-bio.BM2023★ 1 cited

Retrieved Sequence Augmentation for Protein Representation Learning

Chang Ma, Haiteng Zhao, Lin Zheng +7

Protein language models have excelled in a variety of tasks, ranging from structure prediction to protein engineering. However, proteins are highly diverse in functions and structu…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Efficient Attention via Control Variates

Lin Zheng, Jianbo Yuan, Chong Wang +1

Random-feature-based attention (RFA) is an efficient approximation of softmax attention with linear runtime and space complexity. However, the approximation gap between RFA and con…

cs.CL2023★ 9 cited

A Reparameterized Discrete Diffusion Model for Text Generation

Lin Zheng, Jianbo Yuan, Lei Yu +1

This work studies discrete diffusion probabilistic models with applications to natural language generation. We derive an alternative yet equivalent formulation of the sampling from…

cs.LG2022

CAB: Comprehensive Attention Benchmarking on Long Sequence Modeling

Jun Zhang, Shuyang Jiang, Jiangtao Feng +2

Transformer has achieved remarkable success in language, image, and speech processing. Recently, various efficient attention architectures have been proposed to improve transformer…

cs.LG2022★ 8 cited

Linear Complexity Randomized Self-attention Mechanism

Lin Zheng, Chong Wang, Lingpeng Kong

Recently, random feature attentions (RFAs) are proposed to approximate the softmax attention in linear time and space complexity by linearizing the exponential kernel. In this pape…

cs.CV2021

Ripple Attention for Visual Perception with Sub-quadratic Complexity

Lin Zheng, Huijie Pan, Lingpeng Kong

Transformer architectures are now central to sequence modeling tasks. At its heart is the attention mechanism, which enables effective modeling of long-term dependencies in a seque…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

Cascaded Head-colliding Attention

Lin Zheng, Zhiyong Wu, Lingpeng Kong

Transformers have advanced the field of natural language processing (NLP) on a variety of important tasks. At the cornerstone of the Transformer architecture is the multi-head atte…

cs.LG2020★ 4 cited

Generative Semantic Hashing Enhanced via Boltzmann Machines

Lin Zheng, Qinliang Su, Dinghan Shen +1

Generative semantic hashing is a promising technique for large-scale information retrieval thanks to its fast retrieval speed and small memory footprint. For the tractability of tr…