2 papers
cs.CL2026
From AR to Diffusion: Efficiently Adapting Large Language Models with Strictly Causal and Elastic Horizons
Xiangyu Ma, Teng Xiao, Zuchao Li +1
Diffusion models promise efficient parallel text generation but rely on bidirectional attention, creating a structural mismatch with pre-trained Autoregressive (AR) models. This in…
cs.LG2025
OmniBridge: Unified Multimodal Understanding, Generation, and Retrieval via Latent Space Alignment
Teng Xiao, Zuchao Li, Lefei Zhang
Recent advances in multimodal large language models (LLMs) have led to significant progress in understanding, generation, and retrieval tasks. However, current solutions often trea…