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cs.LG2026

ASymPO: Asymmetric-Scale Policy Optimization for Asynchronous LLM Post-Training Without Behavior Information

Zehua Liu, Yuxuan Yao, Xiaojin Fu +2

Asynchronous reinforcement learning can improve language-model post-training throughput by decoupling response generation from policy optimization, but stale responses introduce di…

cs.CL2026

Economy of Minds: Emerging Multi-Agent Intelligence with Economic Interactions

Zhenting Qi, Huangyuan Su, Ao Qu +13

How can a population of agents self-orchestrate and self-adapt into stronger collective intelligence without centralized control? Inspired by Friedrich Hayek's economic theory of d…

cs.CV2026

The Thinking Pixel: Recursive Sparse Reasoning in Multimodal Diffusion Latents

Yuwei Sun, Yuxuan Yao, Hui Li +1

Diffusion models have achieved success in high-fidelity data synthesis, yet their capacity for more complex, structured reasoning like text following tasks remains constrained. Whi…

cs.CV2026

BARD: Bridging AutoRegressive and Diffusion Vision-Language Models Via Highly Efficient Progressive Block Merging and Stage-Wise Distillation

Baoyou Chen, Hanchen Xia, Peng Tu +5

Autoregressive vision-language models (VLMs) deliver strong multimodal capability, but their token-by-token decoding imposes a fundamental inference bottleneck. Diffusion VLMs offe…

cs.LG2026

Merging Beyond: Streaming LLM Updates via Activation-Guided Rotations

Yuxuan Yao, Haonan Sheng, Qingsong Lv +11

The escalating scale of Large Language Models (LLMs) necessitates efficient adaptation techniques. Model merging has gained prominence for its efficiency and controllability. Howev…

cs.CV2026

Prompt Reinjection: Alleviating Prompt Forgetting in Multimodal Diffusion Transformers for Text-to-Image Generation

Yuxuan Yao, Yuxuan Chen, Hui Li +6

Multimodal Diffusion Transformers (MMDiTs) for text-to-image generation maintain separate text and image branches, with bidirectional information flow between text tokens and visua…

cs.HC2025

Do Language Model Agents Align with Humans in Rating Visualizations? An Empirical Study

Zekai Shao, Yi Shan, Yixuan He +6

Large language models encode knowledge in various domains and demonstrate the ability to understand visualizations. They may also capture visualization design knowledge and potenti…

cs.CL2025

Activation-Guided Consensus Merging for Large Language Models

Yuxuan Yao, Shuqi Liu, Zehua Liu +6

Recent research has increasingly focused on reconciling the reasoning capabilities of System 2 with the efficiency of System 1. While existing training-based and prompt-based appro…

cs.CL2025

Unlocking Efficient Long-to-Short LLM Reasoning with Model Merging

Han Wu, Yuxuan Yao, Shuqi Liu +7

The transition from System 1 to System 2 reasoning in large language models (LLMs) has marked significant advancements in handling complex tasks through deliberate, iterative think…

cs.AI2025★ 20 cited

From System 1 to System 2: A Survey of Reasoning Large Language Models

Zhong-Zhi Li, Duzhen Zhang, Ming-Liang Zhang +18

Achieving human-level intelligence requires refining the transition from the fast, intuitive System 1 to the slower, more deliberate System 2 reasoning. While System 1 excels in qu…

cs.CL2025

LoRE-Merging: Exploring Low-Rank Estimation For Large Language Model Merging

Zehua Liu, Han Wu, Yuxuan Yao +4

While most current approaches rely on further training techniques, such as fine-tuning or reinforcement learning, to enhance model capacities, model merging stands out for its abil…