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20242026
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15 papers

eess.AS2026

Preserving Speech-to-Text LLM Capabilities in Speech-to-Speech Generation

Yuxuan Hu, Heng Lu, Ruchao Fan +8

Strong speech-to-text (S2T) LLMs already provide robust speech perception and text reasoning, but adding speech-to-speech (S2S) output is challenging: fine-tuning the backbone can…

cs.LG2026

Latent Recurrent Transformer: Architecture Exploration, Training Strategies, and Scaling Behavior

Zeyi Huang, Xuehai He, LiLiang Ren +8

We study Latent Recurrent Transformer (LRT), a lightweight augmentation of autoregressive transformers that reuses a high-level source-layer hidden state from the previous token as…

cs.LG2025

ThetaEvolve: Test-time Learning on Open Problems

Yiping Wang, Shao-Rong Su, Zhiyuan Zeng +13

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled breakthroughs in mathematical discovery, exemplified by AlphaEvolve, a closed-source system that evolves programs to im…

cs.CL2025

Decoder-Hybrid-Decoder Architecture for Efficient Reasoning with Long Generation

Liliang Ren, Congcong Chen, Haoran Xu +11

Recent advances in language modeling have demonstrated the effectiveness of State Space Models (SSMs) for efficient sequence modeling. While hybrid architectures such as Samba and…

cs.LG2025

Reinforcement Learning for Reasoning in Large Language Models with One Training Example

Yiping Wang, Qing Yang, Zhiyuan Zeng +11

We show that reinforcement learning with verifiable reward using one training example (1-shot RLVR) is effective in incentivizing the math reasoning capabilities of large language…

cs.LG2025

Routing Mamba: Scaling State Space Models with Mixture-of-Experts Projection

Zheng Zhan, Liliang Ren, Shuohang Wang +5

Linear State Space Models (SSMs) offer remarkable performance gains in efficient sequence modeling, with constant inference-time computation and memory complexity. Recent advances,…