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6 papers

cs.CL2026

OPTD: On-Policy Transition Distillation with Consistency-Guided Adaptive Compression for Few-Step Diffusion Language Models

Xiaocheng Lu, Hualei Zhang, Shuhan Guo +8

Diffusion language models (dLLMs) can predict many tokens in parallel, but accurate generation still requires many iterative denoising steps. Few-step distillation accelerates deco…

cs.CV2026

AdaTok: Self-Budgeting Image Tokenization with Quality-Preserving Dynamic Tokens

Xiaocheng Lu, Yuxi Chen, Jie Zhang +5

Image tokenizers, from 2D grids to recent 1D sequences, typically encode every image with the same fixed number of tokens. Yet visual complexity is highly heterogeneous, so a unifo…

cs.AI2026

Beyond Similarity: Trustworthy Memory Search for Personal AI Agents

Jiawen Zhang, Kejia Chen, Jiachen Ma +7

Personal AI agents increasingly rely on long-term memory to provide persistent personalization across sessions. However, existing memory pipelines are largely driven by semantic si…

cs.LG2026

Understanding and Preserving Safety in Fine-Tuned LLMs

Jiawen Zhang, Yangfan Hu, Kejia Chen +7

Fine-tuning is an essential and pervasive functionality for applying large language models (LLMs) to downstream tasks. However, it has the potential to substantially degrade safety…

cs.LG2026

Safety at One Shot: Patching Fine-Tuned LLMs with A Single Instance

Jiawen Zhang, Lipeng He, Kejia Chen +4

Fine-tuning safety-aligned large language models (LLMs) can substantially compromise their safety. Previous approaches require many safety samples or calibration sets, which not on…

cs.CR2025

Activation Approximations Can Incur Safety Vulnerabilities Even in Aligned LLMs: Comprehensive Analysis and Defense

Jiawen Zhang, Kejia Chen, Lipeng He +7

Large Language Models (LLMs) have showcased remarkable capabilities across various domains. Accompanying the evolving capabilities and expanding deployment scenarios of LLMs, their…