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Interactive segmentation has gained significant attention for its application in human-computer interaction and data annotation. To address the target scale variation issue in interactive segmentation, a novel multi-scale token adaptation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Long Xu , Shanghong Li , Yongquan Chen , Jun Luo , Shiwu Lai

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is crucial for unlocking the complex reasoning capabilities of Diffusion-based Large Language Models (dLLMs). However, applying RL to dLLMs faces unique challenges in efficiency and stability. To address these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jiawei Liu , Xiting Wang , Yuanyuan Zhong , Defu Lian , Yu Yang

Fast weight architectures offer a promising alternative to attention-based transformers for long-context modeling by maintaining constant memory overhead regardless of context length. However, their potential is limited by the next-token…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Hee Seung Hwang , Xindi Wu , Sanghyuk Chun , Olga Russakovsky

Large language models (LLMs) with hundreds of billions or trillions of parameters, represented by chatGPT, have achieved profound impact on various fields. However, training LLMs with super-large-scale parameters requires large…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Baodong Wu , Lei Xia , Qingping Li , Kangyu Li , Xu Chen , Yongqiang Guo , Tieyao Xiang , Yuheng Chen , Shigang Li

Since compute grows much faster than web text available for language model pre-training, we ask how one should approach pre-training under fixed data and no compute constraints. We first show that existing data-constrained approaches of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Konwoo Kim , Suhas Kotha , Percy Liang , Tatsunori Hashimoto

We study the pre-train + fine-tune strategy for data-to-text tasks. Our experiments indicate that text-to-text pre-training in the form of T5, enables simple, end-to-end transformer based models to outperform pipelined neural architectures…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Mihir Kale , Abhinav Rastogi

The computational cost of training multimodal large language models (MLLMs) grows rapidly with the number of processed tokens. Existing efficiency methods mainly target inference via token reduction or merging, offering limited benefits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Chaoyu Li , Yogesh Kulkarni , Pooyan Fazli

As supervised fine-tuning (SFT) evolves from a lightweight post-training step into a compute-intensive phase rivaling mid-training in scale, data efficiency has become critical for aligning large language models (LLMs) under tight budgets.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Shaobo Wang , Jiaming Wang , Jiajun Zhang , Cong Wang , Yue Min , Zichen Wen , Xingzhang Ren , Fei Huang , Huiqiang Jiang , Junyang Lin , Dayiheng Liu , Linfeng Zhang

While next-token prediction (NTP) has been the standard objective for training language models, it often struggles to capture global structure in reasoning tasks. Multi-token prediction (MTP) has recently emerged as a promising alternative,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Jianhao Huang , Zhanpeng Zhou , Renqiu Xia , Baharan Mirzasoleiman , Weijie Su , Wei Huang

Autoregressive decoding in language models is inherently slow, generating only one token per forward pass. We propose Parallel Token Prediction (PTP), a general-purpose framework for predicting multiple tokens in a single model call. PTP…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Felix Draxler , Justus Will , Farrin Marouf Sofian , Theofanis Karaletsos , Sameer Singh , Stephan Mandt

Deep Learning models have shown remarkable performance in a broad range of vision tasks. However, they are often vulnerable against domain shifts at test-time. Test-time training (TTT) methods have been developed in an attempt to mitigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Gustavo A. Vargas Hakim , David Osowiechi , Mehrdad Noori , Milad Cheraghalikhani , Ismail Ben Ayed , Christian Desrosiers

Real-world model deployments demand strong performance on narrow domains where data is often scarce. Typically, practitioners finetune models to specialize them, but this risks overfitting to the domain and forgetting general knowledge. We…

Test-Time Training (TTT) models context dependencies by adapting part of the model's weights (referred to as fast weights) during inference. This fast weight, akin to recurrent states in RNNs, stores temporary memories of past tokens in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Tianyuan Zhang , Sai Bi , Yicong Hong , Kai Zhang , Fujun Luan , Songlin Yang , Kalyan Sunkavalli , William T. Freeman , Hao Tan

Latent reasoning offers a computation-efficient alternative to Chain-of-Thought but often suffers from performance degradation due to distributional misalignment and ambiguous chain definitions. Ideally, latent reasoning should function as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Jingcheng Deng , Liang Pang , Zihao Wei , Shicheng Xu , Zenghao Duan , Kun Xu , Yang Song , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

In this work, we introduce a semiparametric token-sequence co-supervision training method. It trains a language model by simultaneously leveraging supervision from the traditional next token prediction loss which is calculated over the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Hyunji Lee , Doyoung Kim , Jihoon Jun , Sejune Joo , Joel Jang , Kyoung-Woon On , Minjoon Seo

Large-scale video-language pre-training has made remarkable strides in advancing video-language understanding tasks. However, the heavy computational burden of video encoding remains a formidable efficiency bottleneck, particularly for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Shuhuai Ren , Sishuo Chen , Shicheng Li , Xu Sun , Lu Hou

Building a good speech recognition system usually requires large amounts of transcribed data, which is expensive to collect. To tackle this problem, many unsupervised pre-training methods have been proposed. Among these methods, Masked…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-24 Dongwei Jiang , Wubo Li , Ruixiong Zhang , Miao Cao , Ne Luo , Yang Han , Wei Zou , Xiangang Li

Large language models produce powerful text embeddings, but their causal attention mechanism restricts the flow of information from later to earlier tokens, degrading representation quality. While recent methods attempt to solve this by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Xueying Ding , Xingyue Huang , Mingxuan Ju , Liam Collins , Yozen Liu , Leman Akoglu , Neil Shah , Tong Zhao

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance on multiple-choice question answering (MCQA) benchmarks, yet they remain highly vulnerable to minor input perturbations. In this paper, we introduce and evaluate Token…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Jui-Ming Yao , Hao-Yuan Chen , Zi-Xian Tang , Bing-Jia Tan , Sheng-Wei Peng , Bing-Cheng Xie , Shun-Feng Su

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved impressive performance across diverse tasks but continue to struggle with learning transitive relations, a cornerstone for complex planning. To address this issue, we investigate the Multi-Token…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Qimin Zhong , Hao Liao , Siwei Wang , Mingyang Zhou , Xiaoqun Wu , Rui Mao , Wei Chen