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Generative modeling has recently achieved remarkable success across image, video, and audio domains, demonstrating powerful capabilities for unified representation learning. Yet speech front-end tasks such as speech enhancement (SE), target…

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We present UniFluid, a unified autoregressive framework for joint visual generation and understanding leveraging continuous visual tokens. Our unified autoregressive architecture processes multimodal image and text inputs, generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Lijie Fan , Luming Tang , Siyang Qin , Tianhong Li , Xuan Yang , Siyuan Qiao , Andreas Steiner , Chen Sun , Yuanzhen Li , Tao Zhu , Michael Rubinstein , Michalis Raptis , Deqing Sun , Radu Soricut

Autoregressive models are among the best performing neural density estimators. We describe an approach for increasing the flexibility of an autoregressive model, based on modelling the random numbers that the model uses internally when…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-15 George Papamakarios , Theo Pavlakou , Iain Murray

Large language models (LLMs) based on transformer architectures are typically described through collections of architectural components and training procedures, obscuring their underlying computational structure. This review article…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Vikram Krishnamurthy

The rapid advancement of speech generation technologies in the era of large language models (LLMs) has established discrete speech tokens as a foundational paradigm for speech representation. These tokens, characterized by their discrete,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-15 Yiwei Guo , Zhihan Li , Hankun Wang , Bohan Li , Chongtian Shao , Hanglei Zhang , Chenpeng Du , Xie Chen , Shujie Liu , Kai Yu

Real-world perception and interaction are inherently multimodal, encompassing not only language but also vision and speech, which motivates the development of "Omni" MLLMs that support both multimodal inputs and multimodal outputs. While a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Dongjie Cheng , Ruifeng Yuan , Yongqi Li , Runyang You , Wenjie Wang , Liqiang Nie , Lei Zhang , Wenjie Li

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown significant progress in understanding complex natural language. One important application of LLM is LLM-based AI Agent, which leverages the ability of LLM as well as external…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Zelong Li , Shuyuan Xu , Kai Mei , Wenyue Hua , Balaji Rama , Om Raheja , Hao Wang , He Zhu , Yongfeng Zhang

We introduce replacing language model (RLM), a sequence-to-sequence language modeling framework for text style transfer (TST). Our method autoregressively replaces each token of the source sentence with a text span that has a similar…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Pengyu Cheng , Ruineng Li

Urban transportation systems encounter diverse challenges across multiple tasks, such as traffic forecasting, electric vehicle (EV) charging demand prediction, and taxi dispatch. Existing approaches suffer from two key limitations:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Jiaming Leng , Yunying Bi , Chuan Qin , Bing Yin , Yanyong Zhang , Chao Wang

Diffusion language models have recently emerged as a competitive alternative to autoregressive language models. Beyond next-token generation, they are more efficient and flexible by enabling parallel and any-order token generation. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Chenxiao Yang , Cai Zhou , David Wipf , Zhiyuan Li

Large Language Model (LLM) based code generation is predominantly formulated as a strictly monotonic process, appending tokens linearly to an immutable prefix. This formulation contrasts to the cognitive process of programming, which is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Chengran Yang , Zichao Wei , Heminghao Deng , Jinfeng Jiang , Zhensu Sun , Ting Zhang , Tianyi Wu , Ming Wen , David Lo

This paper proposes a novel end-to-end architecture for task-oriented dialogue systems. It is based on a simple and practical yet very effective sequence-to-sequence approach, where language understanding and state tracking tasks are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Lei Shu , Piero Molino , Mahdi Namazifar , Hu Xu , Bing Liu , Huaixiu Zheng , Gokhan Tur

Although Transformers with fully connected self-attentions are powerful to model long-term dependencies, they are struggling to scale to long texts with thousands of words in language modeling. One of the solutions is to equip the model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Haozhe Ji , Rongsheng Zhang , Zhenyu Yang , Zhipeng Hu , Minlie Huang

The sequential nature of autoregressive next-token prediction imposes a fundamental speed limit on large language models. While continuous flow models offer a path to parallel generation, they traditionally demand expensive iterative…

Text-to-motion generation is driven by learning motion representations for semantic alignment with language. Existing methods rely on either continuous or discrete motion representations. However, continuous representations entangle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Dawei Guan , Di Yang , Chengjie Jin , Jiangtao Wang

The adoption of Transformer-based models in natural language processing (NLP) has led to great success using a massive number of parameters. However, due to deployment constraints in edge devices, there has been a rising interest in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Klaudia Bałazy , Mohammadreza Banaei , Rémi Lebret , Jacek Tabor , Karl Aberer

Diffusion models have recently been shown to be relevant for high-quality speech generation. Most work has been focused on generating spectrograms, and as such, they further require a subsequent model to convert the spectrogram to a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Roi Benita , Michael Elad , Joseph Keshet

Despite recent progress of pre-trained language models on generating fluent text, existing methods still suffer from incoherence problems in long-form text generation tasks that require proper content control and planning to form a coherent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Zhe Hu , Hou Pong Chan , Jiachen Liu , Xinyan Xiao , Hua Wu , Lifu Huang

Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) have emerged as a promising new paradigm for text generative modeling, potentially addressing limitations of autoregressive (AR) models. However, current DLMs have been studied at a smaller scale compared to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Shansan Gong , Shivam Agarwal , Yizhe Zhang , Jiacheng Ye , Lin Zheng , Mukai Li , Chenxin An , Peilin Zhao , Wei Bi , Jiawei Han , Hao Peng , Lingpeng Kong

While state-of-the-art language models (LMs) surpass the vast majority of humans in certain domains, their reasoning remains largely opaque, undermining trust in their output. Furthermore, while autoregressive LMs can output explicit…