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most citedAVO: Agentic Variation Operators for Autonomous Evolutionary Search

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cs.CV2026

Causal-rCM: A Unified Teacher-Forcing and Self-Forcing Open Recipe for Autoregressive Diffusion Distillation in Streaming Video Generation and Interactive World Models

Kaiwen Zheng, Guande He, Min Zhao +7

Autoregressive video diffusion with causal diffusion transformers has emerged as a major paradigm for real-time streaming video generation and action-conditioned interactive world…

cs.LG2026

The Alignment Tax: Response Homogenization in Aligned LLMs and Its Implications for Uncertainty Estimation

Mingyi Liu

RLHF-aligned language models exhibit response homogenization: on TruthfulQA (n=790), 40-79% of questions produce a single semantic cluster across 10 i.i.d. samples. On affected que…

cs.LG2026★ 1 cited

AVO: Agentic Variation Operators for Autonomous Evolutionary Search

Terry Chen, Zhifan Ye, Bing Xu +20

Agentic Variation Operators (AVO) are a new family of evolutionary variation operators that replace the fixed mutation, crossover, and hand-designed heuristics of classical evoluti…

cs.LG2025

Data-regularized Reinforcement Learning for Diffusion Models at Scale

Haotian Ye, Kaiwen Zheng, Jiashu Xu +15

Aligning generative diffusion models with human preferences via reinforcement learning (RL) is critical yet challenging. Most existing algorithms are often vulnerable to reward hac…

cs.CV2025

InfoTok: Adaptive Discrete Video Tokenizer via Information-Theoretic Compression

Haotian Ye, Qiyuan He, Jiaqi Han +12

Accurate and efficient discrete video tokenization is essential for long video sequences processing. Yet, the inherent complexity and variable information density of videos present…

cs.CV2025

Large Scale Diffusion Distillation via Score-Regularized Continuous-Time Consistency

Kaiwen Zheng, Yuji Wang, Qianli Ma +7

Although continuous-time consistency models (e.g., sCM, MeanFlow) are theoretically principled and empirically powerful for fast academic-scale diffusion, its applicability to larg…

cs.LG2025

DiffusionNFT: Online Diffusion Reinforcement with Forward Process

Kaiwen Zheng, Huayu Chen, Haotian Ye +7

Online reinforcement learning (RL) has been central to post-training language models, but its extension to diffusion models remains challenging due to intractable likelihoods. Rece…

cs.LG2025

NFT: Bridging Supervised Learning and Reinforcement Learning in Math Reasoning

Huayu Chen, Kaiwen Zheng, Qinsheng Zhang +8

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has played a central role in the recent surge of LLMs' math abilities by enabling self-improvement through binary verifier signals. In contrast, Supervi…

cs.CV2025

Direct Discriminative Optimization: Your Likelihood-Based Visual Generative Model is Secretly a GAN Discriminator

Kaiwen Zheng, Yongxin Chen, Huayu Chen +4

While likelihood-based generative models, particularly diffusion and autoregressive models, have achieved remarkable fidelity in visual generation, the maximum likelihood estimatio…

cs.LG2024

Masked Diffusion Models are Secretly Time-Agnostic Masked Models and Exploit Inaccurate Categorical Sampling

Kaiwen Zheng, Yongxin Chen, Hanzi Mao +3

Masked diffusion models (MDMs) have emerged as a popular research topic for generative modeling of discrete data, thanks to their superior performance over other discrete diffusion…