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cs.CL2026

Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion: A Tri-Mode Language Model Unifying Autoregressive, Diffusion, and Self-Speculation Decoding

Yonggan Fu, Lexington Whalen, Abhinav Garg +23

We introduce Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion, a tri-mode language model (LM) that unifies AR, diffusion, and self-speculation decoding within a single architecture. Trained with a joint AR…

cs.CL2026

Zone of Proximal Policy Optimization: Teacher in Prompts, Not Gradients

Byung-Kwan Lee, Ximing Lu, Shizhe Diao +8

Knowledge distillation transfers a teacher's competence to a small student but is brittle in the small-student regime: forcing the student to imitate logits from a much larger teac…

cs.CL2026

Agent Explorative Policy Optimization for Multimodal Agentic Reasoning

Minki Kang, Shizhe Diao, Ryo Hachiuma +4

Vision-language models with extended reasoning succeed on complex problems, but many real-world problems require external tools that internal reasoning alone often cannot resolve.…

cs.CL2026

Progressive Residual Warmup for Language Model Pretraining

Tianhao Chen, Xin Xu, Lu Yin +4

Transformer architectures serve as the backbone for most modern Large Language Models, therefore their pretraining stability and convergence speed are of central concern. Motivated…

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

ProfBench: Multi-Domain Rubrics requiring Professional Knowledge to Answer and Judge

Zhilin Wang, Jaehun Jung, Ximing Lu +7

Evaluating progress in large language models (LLMs) is often constrained by the challenge of verifying responses, limiting assessments to tasks like mathematics, programming, and s…

cs.CL2025

Fast-dLLM v2: Efficient Block-Diffusion LLM

Chengyue Wu, Hao Zhang, Shuchen Xue +7

Autoregressive (AR) large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable performance across a wide range of natural language tasks, yet their inherent sequential decoding limits i…

cs.CL2025

Double-Checker: Enhancing Reasoning of Slow-Thinking LLMs via Self-Critical Fine-Tuning

Xin Xu, Tianhao Chen, Fan Zhang +11

While slow-thinking large language models (LLMs) exhibit reflection-like reasoning, commonly referred to as the "aha moment:, their ability to generate informative critiques and re…

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

Fast-dLLM: Training-free Acceleration of Diffusion LLM by Enabling KV Cache and Parallel Decoding

Chengyue Wu, Hao Zhang, Shuchen Xue +6

Diffusion-based large language models (Diffusion LLMs) have shown promise for non-autoregressive text generation with parallel decoding capabilities. However, the practical inferen…

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.CL2025★ 1 cited

UGPhysics: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Undergraduate Physics Reasoning with Large Language Models

Xin Xu, Qiyun Xu, Tong Xiao +6

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in solving complex reasoning tasks, particularly in mathematics. However, the domain of physics reasoning pre…

cs.CL2024

CodeGraph: Enhancing Graph Reasoning of LLMs with Code

Qiaolong Cai, Zhaowei Wang, Shizhe Diao +2

With the increasing popularity of large language models (LLMs), reasoning on basic graph algorithm problems is an essential intermediate step in assessing their abilities to proces…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

: Improving Code LMs with Execution-Guided On-Policy Preference Learning Driven By Synthetic Test Cases

Dylan Zhang, Shizhe Diao, Xueyan Zou +1

Preference learning provides a promising solution to address the limitations of supervised fine-tuning (SFT) for code language models, where the model is not explicitly trained to…

cs.CL2024

Can We Verify Step by Step for Incorrect Answer Detection?

Xin Xu, Shizhe Diao, Can Yang +1

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting has marked a significant advancement in enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). Previous studies have developed vario…