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8 papers

stat.ML2026

Randomized Midpoint Method for Log-Concave Sampling under Constraints

Yifeng Yu, Shijie Zhang, Lu Yu

In this paper, we study the problem of sampling from log-concave distributions supported on convex and compact sets, with a particular focus on the randomized midpoint discretizati…

stat.ML2026

On the Limits of Latent Reuse in Diffusion Models

Yifeng Yu, Lu Yu

Diffusion models are often trained in low-dimensional latent spaces, which are then reused for related but shifted datasets. In this work, we study when such latent reuse remains r…

math.AP2026

Nonexistence of vanishing-viscosity limits for mechanical Hamiltonian ergodic problems

Ziran Liu, Hung V. Tran, Yifeng Yu

For , let be the solution of the ergodic problem \[ \frac12 |Dϕ^\varepsilon|^2+F(x)-\varepsilonΔϕ^\varepsilon=c(\varepsilon) \qquad \text{on } \m…

cs.LG2026

BubbleSpec: Turning Long-Tail Bubbles into Speculative Rollout Drafts for Synchronous Reinforcement Learning

Yuhang Xu, Kaibin Tian, Yang Tian +6

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has become a cornerstone for improving the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, its rollout phase constitutes a significant efficiency…

cs.CL2026

InfoLaw: Information Scaling Laws for Large Language Models with Quality-Weighted Mixture Data and Repetition

Fengze Liu, Weidong Zhou, Binbin Liu +7

Upweighting high-quality data in LLM pretraining often improves performance, but in datalimited regimes, especially under overtraining, stronger upweighting increases repetition an…

math.ST2026

Diffusion Models with Heavy-Tailed Targets: Score Estimation and Sampling Guarantees

Yifeng Yu, Lu Yu

Score-based diffusion models have become a powerful framework for generative modeling, with score estimation as a central statistical bottleneck. Existing guarantees for score esti…