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DiaLLM: An Investigation into the Robustness-Generation Gap in English Dialect Adaptation
Jordan Painter, Dipankar Srirag, Adarsh Kappiyath +3
Large language models increasingly \emph{understand} dialectal English, yet still \emph{produce} only standard, US-leaning English, leaving dialectal generation, the harder half of…
Diffusion Language Models Know the Answer Before Decoding
Pengxiang Li, Yefan Zhou, Dilxat Muhtar +5
Diffusion language models (DLMs) have recently emerged as an alternative to autoregressive approaches, offering parallel sequence generation and flexible token orders. However, the…
Progressive Residual Warmup for Language Model Pretraining
Tianhao Chen, Xin Xu, Lu Yin +4
Transformer architectures serve as the backbone for most modern Large Language Models, therefore their pretraining stability and convergence speed are of central concern. Motivated…
Why Diffusion Language Models Struggle with Truly Parallel (Non-Autoregressive) Decoding?
Pengxiang Li, Dilxat Muhtar, Tianlong Chen +2
Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) are often advertised as enabling parallel token generation, yet practical fast DLMs frequently converge to left-to-right, autoregressive (AR)-like…
AlphaDecay: Module-wise Weight Decay for Heavy-Tailed Balancing in LLMs
Di He, Songjun Tu, Ajay Jaiswal +4
Weight decay is a standard regularization technique for training large language models (LLMs). While it is common to assign a uniform decay rate to every layer, this approach overl…
Rewiring Experts on the Fly:Continuous Rerouting for Better Online Adaptation in Mixture-of-Expert models
Guinan Su, Yanwu Yang, Li Shen +3
Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models achieve efficient scaling through sparse expert activation, but often suffer from suboptimal routing decisions due to distribution shifts in deploym…