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5 papers

cs.SD2026

Words at Play: Benchmarking Audio Pun Understanding in Large Audio-Language Models

Yuchen Su, Shaoxin Zhong, Yonghua Zhu +6

Puns represent a typical linguistic phenomenon that exploits polysemy and phonetic ambiguity to generate humour, posing unique challenges for natural language understanding. Within…

cs.CL2026

FourierSampler: Unlocking Non-Autoregressive Potential in Diffusion Language Models via Frequency-Guided Generation

Siyang He, Qiqi Wang, Xiaoran Liu +8

Despite the non-autoregressive potential of diffusion language models (dLLMs), existing decoding strategies demonstrate positional bias, failing to fully unlock the potential of ar…

cs.LG2026

DiRL: An Efficient Post-Training Framework for Diffusion Language Models

Ying Zhu, Jiaxin Wan, Xiaoran Liu +7

Diffusion Language Models (dLLMs) have emerged as promising alternatives to Auto-Regressive (AR) models. While recent efforts have validated their pre-training potential and accele…

cs.CL2025

Thus Spake Long-Context Large Language Model

Xiaoran Liu, Ruixiao Li, Mianqiu Huang +11

Long context is an important topic in Natural Language Processing (NLP), running through the development of NLP architectures, and offers immense opportunities for Large Language M…

cs.CL2025

Beyond Homogeneous Attention: Memory-Efficient LLMs via Fourier-Approximated KV Cache

Xiaoran Liu, Siyang He, Qiqi Wang +9

Large Language Models struggle with memory demands from the growing Key-Value (KV) cache as context lengths increase. Existing compression methods homogenize head dimensions or rel…