3 papers
cs.CL2026
From Next-Token to Next-Block: A Principled Adaptation Path for Diffusion LLMs
Yuchuan Tian, Yuchen Liang, Shuo Zhang +10
Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) enable fast generation, yet training large DLMs from scratch is costly. As a practical shortcut, adapting off-the-shelf Auto-Regressive (AR) model…
cs.CL2026
Deferred Commitment Decoding for Diffusion Language Models
Yingte Shu, Yuchuan Tian, Chao Xu +2
Diffusion language models (DLMs) have recently emerged as a strong alternative to autoregressive models by enabling parallel text generation. To improve inference efficiency and KV…
cs.CV2025
U-REPA: Aligning Diffusion U-Nets to ViTs
Yuchuan Tian, Hanting Chen, Mengyu Zheng +3
Representation Alignment (REPA) that aligns Diffusion Transformer (DiT) hidden-states with ViT visual encoders has proven highly effective in DiT training, demonstrating superior c…