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Accelerating Diffusion Language Models via Structured Suffix Modeling

Zifeng Cheng, Keda Li, Zhiwei Jiang +3

Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) exhibit strong parallel decoding capabilities by denoising multiple tokens in a single generation step. However, this parallelism comes with substa…

cs.CL2025

RegionMarker: A Region-Triggered Semantic Watermarking Framework for Embedding-as-a-Service Copyright Protection

Shufan Yang, Zifeng Cheng, Zhiwei Jiang +5

Embedding-as-a-Service (EaaS) is an effective and convenient deployment solution for addressing various NLP tasks. Nevertheless, recent research has shown that EaaS is vulnerable t…

cs.CL2025

Steering When Necessary: Flexible Steering Large Language Models with Backtracking

Zifeng Cheng, Jinwei Gan, Zhiwei Jiang +5

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable performance across many generation tasks. Nevertheless, effectively aligning them with desired behaviors remains a significant…

cs.CL2025

Token Prepending: A Training-Free Approach for Eliciting Better Sentence Embeddings from LLMs

Yuchen Fu, Zifeng Cheng, Zhiwei Jiang +4

Extracting sentence embeddings from large language models (LLMs) is a promising direction, as LLMs have demonstrated stronger semantic understanding capabilities. Previous studies…

cs.CL2025

Multi-Prompting Decoder Helps Better Language Understanding

Zifeng Cheng, Zhaoling Chen, Zhiwei Jiang +4

Recent Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) usually only provide users with the inference APIs, namely the emerging Model-as-a-Service (MaaS) setting. To adapt MaaS PLMs to downstrea…

cs.CL2025

Contrastive Prompting Enhances Sentence Embeddings in LLMs through Inference-Time Steering

Zifeng Cheng, Zhonghui Wang, Yuchen Fu +4

Extracting sentence embeddings from large language models (LLMs) is a practical direction, as it requires neither additional data nor fine-tuning. Previous studies usually focus on…