2 papers
cs.CV2026
BARD: Bridging AutoRegressive and Diffusion Vision-Language Models Via Highly Efficient Progressive Block Merging and Stage-Wise Distillation
Baoyou Chen, Hanchen Xia, Peng Tu +5
Autoregressive vision-language models (VLMs) deliver strong multimodal capability, but their token-by-token decoding imposes a fundamental inference bottleneck. Diffusion VLMs offe…
cs.LG2026
Latent Poincaré Shaping for Agentic Reinforcement Learning
Hanchen Xia, Baoyou Chen, Zelin Zang +3
We propose LaPha, a method for training AlphaZero-like LLM agents in a Poincaré latent space. Under LaPha, the search process can be visualized as a tree rooted at the prompt and…