3 papers
cs.LG2025
On Powerful Ways to Generate: Autoregression, Diffusion, and Beyond
Chenxiao Yang, Cai Zhou, David Wipf +1
Diffusion language models have recently emerged as a competitive alternative to autoregressive language models. Beyond next-token generation, they are more efficient and flexible b…
cs.CL2025
Let it Calm: Exploratory Annealed Decoding for Verifiable Reinforcement Learning
Chenghao Yang, Lin Gui, Chenxiao Yang +3
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) is a powerful paradigm for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), yet its success hinges on eff…
cs.LG2025
PENCIL: Long Thoughts with Short Memory
Chenxiao Yang, Nathan Srebro, David McAllester +1
While state-of-the-art LLMs have demonstrated great promise of using long Chains-of-Thought (CoT) to boost reasoning, scaling it up to more challenging problems at test-time is fun…