English
Related papers

Related papers: LogicDiff: Logic-Guided Denoising Improves Zero-Sh…

200 papers

Masked diffusion models (MDMs) have recently emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive models over discrete domains. MDMs generate sequences in an any-order, parallel fashion, enabling fast inference and strong performance on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Jaeyeon Kim , Lee Cheuk-Kit , Carles Domingo-Enrich , Yilun Du , Sham Kakade , Timothy Ngotiaoco , Sitan Chen , Michael Albergo

Reinforcement learning (RL) can be used to improve the policy (denoiser) of diffusion large language models (dLLMs), while being hindered by the intractability of the policy likelihood. A dominant and efficient family of methods replaces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Xiaohang Tang , Keyue Jiang , Che Liu , Qifang Zhao , Xiaoxiao Xu , Sangwoong Yoon , Ilija Bogunovic

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) have recently achieved leading performances in many generative tasks. However, the inherited iterative sampling process costs hinder their applications to text-to-speech deployment. Through…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-14 Rongjie Huang , Zhou Zhao , Huadai Liu , Jinglin Liu , Chenye Cui , Yi Ren

Diffusion language models expose an explicit denoising trajectory, making it possible to ask when different kinds of information become measurable during generation. We study three independent 32-step runs of LLaDA-8B-Base on masked…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Harry Lu

Masked diffusion models (MDMs) are a potential alternative to autoregressive models (ARMs) for language generation, but generation quality depends critically on the generation order. Prior work either hard-codes an ordering (e.g., blockwise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Chunsan Hong , Sanghyun Lee , Jong Chul Ye

Although LLMs exhibit strong reasoning capabilities, existing training methods largely depend on outcome-based feedback, which can produce correct answers with flawed reasoning. Prior work introduces supervision on intermediate steps but…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Jundong Xu , Hao Fei , Huichi Zhou , Xin Quan , Qijun Huang , Shengqiong Wu , William Yang Wang , Mong-Li Lee , Wynne Hsu

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models have shown extraordinary ability on various generative tasks. However, their slow inference speed renders them impractical in speech synthesis. This paper proposes a linear diffusion model (LinDiff)…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Haogeng Liu , Tao Wang , Jie Cao , Ran He , Jianhua Tao

In discrete generative modeling, two dominant paradigms demonstrate divergent capabilities: Masked Diffusion Language Models (MDLM) excel at semantic understanding and zero-shot generalization, whereas Uniform-noise Diffusion Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yue Liu , Yuzhong Zhao , Zheyong Xie , Qixiang Ye , Jianbin Jiao , Yao Hu , Shaosheng Cao , Yunfan Liu

With the proliferation of location-tracking technologies, massive volumes of trajectory data are continuously being collected. As a fundamental task in trajectory data mining, trajectory similarity computation plays a critical role in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Xiao Zhang , Xingyu Zhao , Hong Xia , Yuan Cao , Guiyuan Jiang , Junyu Dong , Yanwei Yu

High-assurance reasoning, particularly in critical domains such as law and medicine, requires conclusions that are accurate, verifiable, and explicitly grounded in evidence. This reasoning relies on premises codified from rules, statutes,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Navapat Nananukul , Yue Zhang , Ryan Lee , Eric Boxer , Jonathan May , Vibhav Giridhar Gogate , Jay Pujara , Mayank Kejriwal

With its powerful visual-language alignment capability, CLIP performs well in zero-shot and few-shot learning tasks. However, we found in experiments that CLIP's logits suffer from serious inter-class confusion problems in downstream tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Shuo Li , Fang Liu , Zehua Hao , Xinyi Wang , Lingling Li , Xu Liu , Puhua Chen , Wenping Ma

Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting has been extended to large audio-language models (LALMs) to elicit reasoning, yet enhancing its effectiveness without training remains challenging. We study inference-time model steering as a training-free…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Lok-Lam Ieong , Chia-Chien Chen , Chih-Kai Yang , Yu-Han Huang , An-Yu Cheng , Hung-yi Lee

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in reasoning tasks, yet their reliance on static prompt structures and limited adaptability to complex scenarios remains a significant challenge. In this paper, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Chengkun Cai , Xu Zhao , Haoliang Liu , Zhongyu Jiang , Tianfang Zhang , Zongkai Wu , Jenq-Neng Hwang , Lei Li

We introduce MMaDA, a novel class of multimodal diffusion foundation models designed to achieve superior performance across diverse domains such as textual reasoning, multimodal understanding, and text-to-image generation. The approach is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Ling Yang , Ye Tian , Bowen Li , Xinchen Zhang , Ke Shen , Yunhai Tong , Mengdi Wang

Logical reasoning is a critical benchmark for evaluating the capabilities of large language models (LLMs), as it reflects their ability to derive valid conclusions from given premises. While the combination of test-time scaling with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Ramya Keerthy Thatikonda , Wray Buntine , Ehsan Shareghi

Self-correction is emerging as a promising approach to mitigate the issue of hallucination in Large Language Models (LLMs). To facilitate effective self-correction, recent research has proposed mistake detection as its initial step.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Zhuoxuan Jiang , Haoyuan Peng , Shanshan Feng , Fan Li , Dongsheng Li

Large language models (LLMs) require alignment to effectively and safely follow user instructions. This process necessitates training an aligned version for every base model, resulting in significant computational overhead. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Yu Fei , Yasaman Razeghi , Sameer Singh

Reasoning language models can solve increasingly complex tasks, but struggle to produce the calibrated confidence estimates necessary for reliable deployment. Existing calibration methods usually depend on labels or repeated sampling at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Thomas Zollo , Jimmy Wang , Richard Zemel

Language models rely on semantic priors to perform in-context learning, which leads to poor performance on tasks involving inductive reasoning. Instruction-tuning methods based on imitation learning can superficially enhance the in-context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Nafis Sadeq , Xin Xu , Zhouhang Xie , Julian McAuley , Byungkyu Kang , Prarit Lamba , Xiang Gao

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across a wide range of reasoning tasks, including logical and mathematical problem-solving. While prompt-based methods like Chain-of-Thought (CoT) can enhance LLM…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Xiaoheng Wang , Tongxuan Liu , Zi Gong , Xianzhe Dong , Yuting Zeng , Minhan Hu , Weizhe Huang , Jing Li