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cs.CL2026

EdgeWise: Bringing Long-Horizon Agents to the Edge via Selective Cloud Delegation

Zeru Shi, Jindong Jiang, Ryo Hachiuma +10

Complex and long-horizon agent tasks often rely on frontier models deployed in the cloud to achieve strong performance. However, using these models for every step of a long-horizon…

cs.CL2026

Large Language Continuous Diffusion Models

Zhihan Yang, Wei Guo, Jean-Marie Lemercier +14

Despite the success of discrete diffusion language models (dLMs) for fast parallel decoding, their non-smooth, high-dimensional space hinders trajectory steering for reasoning and…

cs.CL2026

Mid-Harness: Scaling Actions Between Model and Harness for Terminal Agents

Minki Kang, Ryo Hachiuma, Shaokun Zhang +8

Terminal agents act through stochastic model generations, yet the ability to generate a useful action does not ensure its reliable execution. A poor command (e.g., wrong package in…

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

-dLLM: Accelerating Diffusion Large Language Models via Spatio-Temporal Redundancy Reduction

Zhenbang Du, Kejing Xia, Xinrui Zhong +6

Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) have emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive generation by enabling parallel token prediction. However, practical dLLM decoding…

cs.CL2026

Fast-dVLM: Efficient Block-Diffusion VLM via Direct Conversion from Autoregressive VLM

Chengyue Wu, Shiyi Lan, Yonggan Fu +9

Vision-language models (VLMs) predominantly rely on autoregressive decoding, which generates tokens one at a time and fundamentally limits inference throughput. This limitation is…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

NVIDIA Nemotron 3: Efficient and Open Intelligence

NVIDIA, :, Aaron Blakeman +356

We introduce the Nemotron 3 family of models - Nano, Super, and Ultra. These models deliver strong agentic, reasoning, and conversational capabilities. The Nemotron 3 family uses a…

cs.CL2025

Nemotron 3 Nano: Open, Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Model for Agentic Reasoning

NVIDIA, :, Aaron Blakeman +311

We present Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B, a Mixture-of-Experts hybrid Mamba-Transformer language model. Nemotron 3 Nano was pretrained on 25 trillion text tokens, including more than 3 t…

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

TiDAR: Think in Diffusion, Talk in Autoregression

Jingyu Liu, Xin Dong, Zhifan Ye +6

Diffusion language models hold the promise of fast parallel generation, while autoregressive (AR) models typically excel in quality due to their causal structure aligning naturally…

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

NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 2: An Accurate and Efficient Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Reasoning Model

NVIDIA, :, Aarti Basant +214

We introduce Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2, a hybrid Mamba-Transformer language model designed to increase throughput for reasoning workloads while achieving state-of-the-art accuracy compar…

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…