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cs.CL2026

SparDA: Sparse Decoupled Attention for Efficient Long-Context LLM Inference

Yaosheng Fu, Guangxuan Xiao, Xin Dong +2

Sparse attention reduces compute and memory bandwidth for long-context LLM inference. However, two key challenges remain: (1) KV cache capacity still grows with sequence length, an…

cs.CL2026

SaliMory: Orchestrating Cognitive Memory for Conversational Agents

Kai Zhang, Xinyuan Zhang, Hongda Jiang +11

Conversational agents that serve as lifelong companions must maintain persistent memory across all interactions. However, simply expanding context windows with raw retrieval degrad…

cs.CL2026

GDPO: Group reward-Decoupled Normalization Policy Optimization for Multi-reward RL Optimization

Shih-Yang Liu, Xin Dong, Ximing Lu +10

As language models become increasingly capable, users expect them to provide not only accurate responses but also behaviors aligned with diverse human preferences across a variety…

cs.CL2025

Efficient-DLM: From Autoregressive to Diffusion Language Models, and Beyond in Speed

Yonggan Fu, Lexington Whalen, Zhifan Ye +11

Diffusion language models (dLMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm that enables parallel, non-autoregressive generation, but their learning efficiency lags behind that of autore…

cs.CL2025

ToolOrchestra: Elevating Intelligence via Efficient Model and Tool Orchestration

Hongjin Su, Shizhe Diao, Ximing Lu +13

Large language models are powerful generalists, yet solving deep and complex problems such as those of the Humanity's Last Exam (HLE) remains both conceptually challenging and comp…

cs.CL2025

TiDAR: Think in Diffusion, Talk in Autoregression

Jingyu Liu, Xin Dong, Zhifan Ye +6

Diffusion language models hold the promise of fast parallel generation, while autoregressive (AR) models typically excel in quality due to their causal structure aligning naturally…

cs.CL2025

NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 2: An Accurate and Efficient Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Reasoning Model

NVIDIA, :, Aarti Basant +214

We introduce Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2, a hybrid Mamba-Transformer language model designed to increase throughput for reasoning workloads while achieving state-of-the-art accuracy compar…

cs.CL2025

ProRL: Prolonged Reinforcement Learning Expands Reasoning Boundaries in Large Language Models

Mingjie Liu, Shizhe Diao, Ximing Lu +5

Recent advances in reasoning-centric language models have highlighted reinforcement learning (RL) as a promising method for aligning models with verifiable rewards. However, it rem…

cs.CL2025

LongMamba: Enhancing Mamba's Long Context Capabilities via Training-Free Receptive Field Enlargement

Zhifan Ye, Kejing Xia, Yonggan Fu +7

State space models (SSMs) have emerged as an efficient alternative to Transformer models for language modeling, offering linear computational complexity and constant memory usage a…

cs.CL2025

Nemotron-CLIMB: CLustering-based Iterative Data Mixture Bootstrapping for Language Model Pre-training

Shizhe Diao, Yu Yang, Yonggan Fu +11

Pre-training datasets are typically collected from web content and lack inherent domain divisions. For instance, widely used datasets like Common Crawl do not include explicit doma…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Hymba: A Hybrid-head Architecture for Small Language Models

Xin Dong, Yonggan Fu, Shizhe Diao +10

We propose Hymba, a family of small language models featuring a hybrid-head parallel architecture that integrates transformer attention mechanisms with state space models (SSMs) fo…