arXiv:2604. 18995v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) have emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive generation by enabling parallel token prediction.
By Zhenbang Du, Kejing Xia, Xinrui Zhong, Yonggan Fu, Nicolai Oswald, Binfei Ji, Brucek Khailany, Pavlo Molchanov, Yingyan Lin
arXiv:2609.37391v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Diffusion language models (DLMs) enable parallel generation by predicting and committing multiple tokens at each denoising step, yet they can generate...
By Kodai Kawamura, Kenji Kawaguchi, Anji Liu
arXiv:2602. 07739v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Embedding geometry plays a fundamental role in retrieval quality, yet dense retrievers for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) remain largely confined to Euclidean space.
By Hiren Madhu, Ngoc Bui, Ali Maatouk, Leandros Tassiulas, Smita Krishnaswamy, Menglin Yang, Sukanta Ganguly, Kiran Srinivasan, Rex Ying
arXiv:2601. 22947v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Masked diffusion language models (MDLMs) generate text by unmasking tokens in parallel and have recently emerged as alternatives to autoregressive language models.
By Mengyu Ye, Keito Kudo, Ryosuke Takahashi, Jun Suzuki
arXiv:2607. 00004v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While advanced foundation models like ModernBERT significantly outperform older architectures in dense retrieval, they surprisingly lag behind the aging BERT-base baseline in learned sparse retrieval (LSR).
By Zhichao Geng, Yang Yang
arXiv:2606. 16847v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) offer a promising avenue for parallel generation but face a trade-off between decoding speed and quality.
By Yizhen Yao, Qinglin Zhu, Runcong Zhao, Xiangxiang Dai, Yanzheng Xiang, Yulan He, Lin Gui
arXiv:2601. 17917v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) offer a compelling paradigm for natural language generation, leveraging parallel decoding and bidirectional attention to achieve superior global coherence compared to autoregressive models.
By Zhongyu Xiao, Zhiwei Hao, Jianyuan Guo, Yong Luo, Jia Liu, Jie Xu, Han Hu
GeoSteer introduces a geometry-aware, optimization-based approach to norm-preserving activation steering in large language models. By formulating steering as a Riemannian optimization problem, it updates activations through a sequence of small geodesic steps guided by a learned nonlinear objective, avoiding fixed steering directions. Experiments on TruthfulQA, RealToxicityPrompts, and UltraFeedback show that GeoSteer consistently outperforms existing activation steering baselines, offering smoother, more stable, and more consistent steering behavior.
By Xuan Cuong Ngo, Hao Vo, Ngan Le
arXiv:2607. 07047v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding the geometric structure of pre-trained language model embeddings matters for interpretability and safety.
By Szczepan Konior, Alexandre Quemy, Przemys{\l}aw Klocek, Gr\'egoire Cattan, Bart{\l}omiej Sobieski
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have advanced image geolocalization mainly by improving how they reason about geographic cues. How that reasoning isdecoded into coordinates, however, has lagged behind.
SimLens is a training‑free decoder that improves early‑layer predictions in large language models by keeping only the start token and a candidate answer token and performing a lightweight continuation through the remaining layers. It outperforms direct linear readouts, yielding higher accuracy on tasks such as ARC, BoolQ, and HeadQA with LLaMA‑7B and Vicuna‑7B. The method is extended to Linear SimLens for confidence estimation and combined into SimExit, a hybrid early‑exit mechanism that achieves significant speedups while maintaining accuracy.
By Ming Ma, Bowen Zheng, Zhongqiao Lin, Tianming Yang
arXiv:2606. 02544v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) have recently emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive (AR) LLMs, offering faster inference through parallel or blockwise decoding.
By Junxia Cui, Haotian Ye, Runchu Tian, Hongcan Guo, Jinya Jiang, Haoru Li, Chaojie Ren, Yiming Huang, Kaijie Zhu, Zhongkai Yu, Kun Zhou, Jingbo Shang