3 papers
cs.CL2026
Teaching Diffusion to Speculate Left-to-Right
Lexington Whalen, Yuki Ito, Ryo Sakamoto
Large language models (LLMs) achieve remarkable performance across a wide range of tasks, but their autoregressive decoding process incurs substantial inference costs due to inhere…
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.CV2025
Early-Bird Diffusion: Investigating and Leveraging Timestep-Aware Early-Bird Tickets in Diffusion Models for Efficient Training
Lexington Whalen, Zhenbang Du, Haoran You +4
Training diffusion models (DMs) requires substantial computational resources due to multiple forward and backward passes across numerous timesteps, motivating research into efficie…