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DPRM: A Plug-in Doob h transform-induced Token-Ordering Module for Discrete Diffusion Models
Dake Bu, Wei Huang, Andi Han +5
Discrete diffusion models admit many token orders, yet most systems rely on confidence-based decoding. Confidence is a strong and efficient heuristic, but it can be myopic because…
Distributional Biases in Post-Training: A Markovian Analysis of Reasoning Trajectories
Dake Bu, Wei Huang, Andi Han +5
Foundation models exhibit broad knowledge but limited task-specific reasoning, motivating post-training strategies such as RL with verifiable rewards (RLVR) and test-time scaling (…
Slowly Annealed Langevin Dynamics: Theory and Applications to Training-Free Guided Generation
Atsushi Nitanda, Dake Bu, Yueming Lyu +1
We study Slowly Annealed Langevin Dynamics (SALD), a sampler for tracking a path of moving target distributions and approximating the terminal target through time slowdown. We esta…
Provable Benefit of Curriculum in Transformer Tree-Reasoning Post-Training
Dake Bu, Wei Huang, Andi Han +4
Recent curriculum techniques in the post-training stage of LLMs have been empirically observed to outperform non-curriculum approaches in improving reasoning performance, yet a pri…
Provable In-Context Vector Arithmetic via Retrieving Task Concepts
Dake Bu, Wei Huang, Andi Han +4
In-context learning (ICL) has garnered significant attention for its ability to grasp functions/tasks from demonstrations. Recent studies suggest the presence of a latent task/func…
Provably Transformers Harness Multi-Concept Word Semantics for Efficient In-Context Learning
Dake Bu, Wei Huang, Andi Han +4
Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) have displayed remarkable creative prowess and emergence capabilities. Existing empirical studies have revealed a strong connection b…