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6 papers

cs.LG2026

Breaking the Tokenizer Barrier: On-Policy Distillation across Model Families

Yifan Niu, Han Xiao, Dongyi Liu +4

On-Policy Distillation (OPD) has become a core technique in the post-training of Large Language Models (LLMs) for transferring knowledge from domain experts to student models. Howe…

cs.DC2026

Efficient Scaling of LLM Training with Flexible Context Parallelism

Yifan Niu, Han Xiao, Dongyi Liu +2

Scaling long-context capabilities is crucial for Large Language Models (LLMs). However, real-world data contain a large number of sequences with heterogeneous lengths. Existing tra…

cs.DC2026

PiKV: KV Cache Management System for Mixture of Experts

Dong Liu, Yanxuan Yu, Ben Lengerich +1

As large-scale language models continue to scale up in both size and context length, the memory and communication cost of key-value (KV) cache storage has become a major bottleneck…

cs.AI2026

PiCA: Pivot-Based Credit Assignment for Search Agentic Reinforcement Learning

Dongyi Liu, Yifan Niu, Qinwen Wang +2

Large Language Model (LLM)-based search agents trained with reinforcement learning (RL) have significantly improved the performance of knowledge-intensive tasks. However, existing…

cs.DC2025

Designing Large Foundation Models for Efficient Training and Inference: A Survey

Dong Liu, Yanxuan Yu, Yite Wang +5

This paper focuses on modern efficient training and inference technologies on foundation models and illustrates them from two perspectives: model and system design. Model and Syste…

cs.CV2025

Visual Large Language Models for Generalized and Specialized Applications

Yifan Li, Zhixin Lai, Wentao Bao +7

Visual-language models (VLM) have emerged as a powerful tool for learning a unified embedding space for vision and language. Inspired by large language models, which have demonstra…