3 papers
cs.CV2026
Not All Visual Tokens Are Equally Safe to Remove:Consequence-Sensitive Visual Token Compression
Jingbo Wen, Liang He, Mingyu Cao +4
Visual token compression for vision--language models (VLMs) has largely relied on criteria such as attention, redundancy, and uncertainty to maximize average accuracy under a fixed…
cs.LG2026
Condense, Don't Just Prune: Enhancing Efficiency and Performance in MoE Layer Pruning
Mingyu Cao, Gen Li, Jie Ji +6
Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) has garnered significant attention for its ability to scale up neural networks while utilizing the same or even fewer active parameters. However, MoE does…
cs.CL2026
Search or Accelerate: Confidence-Switched Position Beam Search for Diffusion Language Models
Mingyu Cao, Alvaro H. C. Correia, Christos Louizos +2
Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) generate text by iteratively denoising a masked sequence, repeatedly deciding which positions to commit at each step. Standard decoding follows a g…