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cs.LG2026

Maglev: Sliding Recurrent Memory

Bo Liu, Qiang Liu

We introduce \ours{}, a recurrent Transformer architecture with fixed-size memory that generalizes sliding-window attention while remaining parallelizable during training. \ours{}…

cs.LG2025

Improving Rectified Flow with Boundary Conditions

Xixi Hu, Runlong Liao, Keyang Xu +5

Rectified Flow offers a simple and effective approach to high-quality generative modeling by learning a velocity field. However, we identify a limitation in directly modeling the v…

cs.LG2025

Muon Optimizes Under Spectral Norm Constraints

Lizhang Chen, Jonathan Li, Qiang Liu

The pursuit of faster optimization algorithms remains an active and important research direction in deep learning. Recently, the Muon optimizer [JJB+24] has demonstrated promising…

cs.LG2025

Improving Adaptive Moment Optimization via Preconditioner Diagonalization

Son Nguyen, Bo Liu, Lizhang Chen +1

Modern adaptive optimization methods, such as Adam and its variants, have emerged as the most widely used tools in deep learning over recent years. These algorithms offer automatic…

cs.LG2024

SKIM: Any-bit Quantization Pushing The Limits of Post-Training Quantization

Runsheng Bai, Bo Liu, Qiang Liu

Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit impressive performance across various tasks, but deploying them for inference poses challenges. Their high resource demands often necessitate c…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Cautious Optimizers: Improving Training with One Line of Code

Kaizhao Liang, Lizhang Chen, Bo Liu +1

AdamW has been the default optimizer for transformer pretraining. For many years, our community searched for faster and more stable optimizers with only constrained positive outcom…

cs.LG2024

Memory-Efficient LLM Training with Online Subspace Descent

Kaizhao Liang, Bo Liu, Lizhang Chen +1

Recently, a wide range of memory-efficient LLM training algorithms have gained substantial popularity. These methods leverage the low-rank structure of gradients to project optimiz…

cs.LG2024

Memory-Efficient Optimization with Factorized Hamiltonian Descent

Son Nguyen, Lizhang Chen, Bo Liu +1

Modern deep learning heavily depends on adaptive optimizers such as Adam and its variants, which are renowned for their capacity to handle model scaling and streamline hyperparamet…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

AdaFlow: Imitation Learning with Variance-Adaptive Flow-Based Policies

Xixi Hu, Bo Liu, Xingchao Liu +1

Diffusion-based imitation learning improves Behavioral Cloning (BC) on multi-modal decision-making, but comes at the cost of significantly slower inference due to the recursion in…