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cs.CL2026

SEED: Self-Speculative Decoding via Implicit Encoder-Decoder

Hankun Lin, Patrick Pynadath, Ruqi Zhang

Self-speculative decoding accelerates large language model (LLM) inference by drafting tokens from the target model itself, but faces a sharp tradeoff between the quality and cost…

cs.CL2026

Simplex Relaxation for Discrete Diffusion

Jinya Sakurai, Patrick Pynadath, Satoshi Hayakawa +4

Discrete diffusion models for categorical generation are defined by a corruption kernel, which determines the intermediate state space and the associated reverse prediction problem…

cs.LG2026

Sticky Jump Diffusions: A Unifying View of Masked, Continuous, and Hybrid Diffusion

Pascal Jutras-Dubé, Patrick Pynadath, Jeremy Lu +2

We introduce Sticky Jump Diffusions (SJDs), continuous-time Markov processes on whose discrete anchors are token embeddings. In forward time, anchors release their ma…

cs.LG2026

Generative Frontiers: Why Evaluation Matters for Diffusion Language Models

Patrick Pynadath, Jiaxin Shi, Ruqi Zhang

Diffusion language models have seen exciting recent progress, offering far more flexibility in generative trajectories than autoregressive models. This flexibility has motivated a…

cs.LG2026

Why Any-Order Autoregressive Models Need Two-Stream Attention: A Structural-Semantic Tradeoff

Patrick Pynadath, Ruqi Zhang

Any-order autoregressive models (AO-ARMs) offer a promising path toward efficient masked diffusion by enabling native key-value caching, but competitive performance has so far requ…

cs.LG2025

CANDI: Hybrid Discrete-Continuous Diffusion Models

Patrick Pynadath, Jiaxin Shi, Ruqi Zhang

While continuous diffusion has shown remarkable success in continuous domains such as image generation, its direct application to discrete data has underperformed pure discrete for…

cs.CR2025

VERA: Variational Inference Framework for Jailbreaking Large Language Models

Anamika Lochab, Lu Yan, Patrick Pynadath +2

The rise of API-only access to state-of-the-art LLMs highlights the need for effective black-box jailbreak methods to identify model vulnerabilities in real-world settings. Without…

cs.LG2025

Single-Step Consistent Diffusion Samplers

Pascal Jutras-Dubé, Patrick Pynadath, Ruqi Zhang

Sampling from unnormalized target distributions is a fundamental yet challenging task in machine learning and statistics. Existing sampling algorithms typically require many iterat…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Controlled LLM Decoding via Discrete Auto-regressive Biasing

Patrick Pynadath, Ruqi Zhang

Controlled text generation allows for enforcing user-defined constraints on large language model outputs, an increasingly important field as LLMs become more prevalent in everyday…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Gradient-based Discrete Sampling with Automatic Cyclical Scheduling

Patrick Pynadath, Riddhiman Bhattacharya, Arun Hariharan +1

Discrete distributions, particularly in high-dimensional deep models, are often highly multimodal due to inherent discontinuities. While gradient-based discrete sampling has proven…