5 papers
PreDiff-LM: Pretrained Discrete Masked Diffusion Language Modeling with Hybrid Attention
Zhengtao Yao, Runhao Li, Xupeng Chen +12
Discrete masked diffusion language models support bidirectional generation and infilling, but adapting pretrained autoregressive (AR) transformers requires reconciling causal pretr…
Less Data, Better Alignment: Data-Centric Multi-Evaluator Agreement for Preference Optimization
Zhengtao Yao, Runhao Li, Xupeng Chen +12
Research on preference optimization often varies the training objective while holding the data fixed. We instead ask whether a small, high-confidence set of on-policy responses can…
TimeROME-DLM: Temporal Causal Tracing and Low-Rank Inference-Time Knowledge Editing for Masked Diffusion Language Models
Zhengtao Yao, Liuyang Song, Hongbo Zhang +4
Masked diffusion language models (MDLMs) such as LLaDA now rival autoregressive (AR) LLMs, but every existing knowledge-editing and unlearning method (ROME, MEMIT, etc.) targets AR…
JEPA-T: Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture with Text Fusion for Image Generation
Siheng Wan, Zhengtao Yao, Zhengdao Li +9
Modern Text-to-Image (T2I) generation increasingly relies on token-centric architectures that are trained with self-supervision, yet effectively fusing text with visual tokens rema…
CATP: Contextually Adaptive Token Pruning for Efficient and Enhanced Multimodal In-Context Learning
Yanshu Li, Jianjiang Yang, Zhennan Shen +3
Modern large vision-language models (LVLMs) convert each input image into a large set of tokens that far outnumber the text tokens. Although this improves visual perception, it als…