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20242026
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26 papers

cs.CL2026

Embarrassingly Simple Self-Distillation Improves Code Generation

Ruixiang Zhang, Richard He Bai, Huangjie Zheng +3

Can a large language model (LLM) improve at code generation using only its own raw outputs, without a verifier, a teacher model, or reinforcement learning? We answer in the affirma…

cs.CL2026

Scaling Properties of Continuous Diffusion Spoken Language Models

Jason Ramapuram, Eeshan Gunesh Dhekane, Amitis Shidani +6

Speech-only spoken language models (SLMs) lag behind text and text-speech models in performance, with recent discrete autoregressive (AR) SLMs indicating significant computational…

cs.LG2026

LaDiR: Latent Diffusion Enhances LLMs for Text Reasoning

Haoqiang Kang, Yizhe Zhang, Nikki Lijing Kuang +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate their reasoning ability through chain-of-thought (CoT) generation. However, LLM's autoregressive decoding may limit the ability to revisit…

cs.MM2026

Mechanisms of Multimodal Synchronization: Insights from Decoder-Based Video-Text-to-Speech Synthesis

Akshita Gupta, Tatiana Likhomanenko, Karren Dai Yang +3

Unified decoder-only transformers have shown promise for multimodal generation, yet the mechanisms by which they synchronize modalities with heterogeneous sampling rates remain und…

cs.LG2026

Path-Constrained Mixture-of-Experts

Zijin Gu, Tatiana Likhomanenko, Vimal Thilak +2

Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures route each token through a subset of experts at each layer independently. We propose viewing MoE computation through the lens of \emph…

cs.LG2026

Revisiting ASR Error Correction with Specialized Models

Zijin Gu, Tatiana Likhomanenko, He Bai +3

Language models play a central role in automatic speech recognition (ASR), yet most methods rely on text-only models unaware of ASR error patterns. Recently, large language models…