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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…
FedSmoothLoRA: Toward Smoother and Faster Convergence in Federated Low-Rank Adaptation
Zehao Wang, Guanglei Yang, Yihan Zeng +4
Federated fine-tuning of foundation models with Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) provides an efficient solution for reducing communication and computation costs while preserving data loc…
Behavior-Aware Auxiliary Corrections for Off-Policy Temporal-Difference Prediction
Xingguo Chen, Zhiang He, Yuchen Shen +4
Temporal-difference learning with function approximation can be unstable under off-policy sampling. TDC stabilizes off-policy TD through an auxiliary covariance correction, and TDR…
Behavior-Induced Mirror-Prox Temporal-Difference Learning for Faster Off-Policy Prediction
Xingguo Chen, Yuchen Shen, Shangdong Yang +3
Gradient temporal-difference methods provide stable off-policy prediction with linear function approximation, but their practical performance is strongly affected by the geometry i…