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cs.CV2026

Thinking with Anchors: Grounded and Efficient Document Reasoning

Sichen Zhu, Yuchen Zhu, Wenzhuo Xu +13

Existing document understanding benchmarks have largely focused on locating page elements, yet real-world document intelligence requires models to reason jointly about region seman…

cs.CV2026

Sparse-LaViDa: Sparse Multimodal Discrete Diffusion Language Models

Shufan Li, Jiuxiang Gu, Kangning Liu +4

Masked Discrete Diffusion Models (MDMs) have achieved strong performance across a wide range of multimodal tasks, including image understanding, generation, and editing. However, t…

cs.CV2026

Lavida-O: Elastic Large Masked Diffusion Models for Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation

Shufan Li, Jiuxiang Gu, Kangning Liu +4

Lavida-O is a unified masked diffusion model that combines a lightweight generation branch with a larger understanding branch to perform image understanding, object grounding, imag…

cs.CV2026

LaViDa: A Large Diffusion Language Model for Multimodal Understanding

Shufan Li, Konstantinos Kallidromitis, Hritik Bansal +7

LaViDa introduces a diffusion-based vision-language model that combines a vision encoder with discrete diffusion to enable fast parallel decoding and controllable multimodal genera…

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LaViDa-R1: Advancing Reasoning for Unified Multimodal Diffusion Language Models

Shufan Li, Yuchen Zhu, Jiuxiang Gu +6

Diffusion language models (dLLMs) recently emerged as a promising alternative to auto-regressive LLMs. The latest works further extended it to multimodal understanding and generati…

cs.LG2026

FLARE: Diffusion for Hybrid Language Model

Yuchen Zhu, Jing Shi, Chongjian Ge +9

Autoregressive (AR) large language models (LLMs) have achieved broad practical success, but sequential decoding remains a key bottleneck for low-latency deployment. Recent efficien…