3 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.CV2026
Pyramidal Patchification Flow for Visual Generation
Hui Li, Baoyou Chen, Liwei Zhang +3
Diffusion transformers (DiTs) adopt Patchify, mapping patch representations to token representations through linear projections, to adjust the number of tokens input to DiT blocks…
cs.LG2024
AlphaFolding: 4D Diffusion for Dynamic Protein Structure Prediction with Reference and Motion Guidance
Kaihui Cheng, Ce Liu, Qingkun Su +6
Protein structure prediction is pivotal for understanding the structure-function relationship of proteins, advancing biological research, and facilitating pharmaceutical developmen…