arXiv Computation and Language

DANTINOX: A Unified Framework for Multi-Paradigm Language Modeling

The paper introduces DantinoX, an open‑source JAX/Flax library that unifies autoregressive decoding, discrete masked diffusion, and continuous flow‑matching language modeling under a single modular Transformer backbone. By keeping the backbone, tokenizer, initialization, and training infrastructure consistent, users can switch between generation paradigms, attention mechanisms, or hardware topologies with only a configuration change. This design enables controlled cross‑paradigm comparisons within one API for training, streaming inference, and benchmarking.

arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 1

Simulstream: Open-Source Toolkit for Evaluation and Demonstration of Streaming Speech-to-Text Translation Systems

Simulstream is an open‑source toolkit designed to evaluate and demonstrate streaming speech‑to‑text translation systems. It supports both incremental and re‑translation decoding on long‑form speech, offers fine‑grained logging for quality and latency metrics, and includes an interactive web interface for real‑time visualization and comparison. The toolkit addresses the fragmented evaluation landscape by providing a unified framework that accommodates different decoding strategies and input formats.

By Marco Gaido, Sara Papi, Mauro Cettolo, Matteo Negri, Luisa Bentivogli
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 31

CoFrGeNet: Continued Fraction Architectures for Language Generation

CoFrGeNet introduces Continued Fraction Generative Networks, a new function class that replaces Multi-head Attention and Feed-Forward Networks in Transformer blocks with fewer parameters. The architecture includes custom gradient formulations for efficient optimization and can be plugged into existing Transformer workflows with minimal changes. Experiments on GPT2‑xl and Llama3 show competitive or superior performance on downstream tasks while using 1/2 to 2/3 of the original parameters and shorter pre‑training time.

By Amit Dhurandhar, Vijil Chenthamarakshan, Dennis Wei, Tejaswini Pedapati, Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy, Rahul Nair
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

DREAM-S: Speculative Decoding with Searchable Drafting and Target-Aware Refinement for Multimodal Generation

arXiv:2606. 00535v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Speculative decoding (SD) has proven to be an effective technique for accelerating autoregressive generation in large language models (LLMs) however, its application to vision-language models (VLMs) remains relatively unexplored.

By Zining Liu, Yunhai Hu, Tianhua Xia, Bo Bao, Eric Sather, Vithursan Thangarasa, Sai Qian Zhang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 17

Olmo Hybrid: From Theory to Practice and Back

arXiv:2604. 03444v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent work has demonstrated the potential of non-transformer language models, especially linear recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and hybrid models that mix recurrence and attention.

By William Merrill, Yanhong Li, Tyler Romero, Anej Svete, Caia Costello, Pradeep Dasigi, Dirk Groeneveld, David Heineman, Bailey Kuehl, Nathan Lambert, Chuan Li, Kyle Lo, Saumya Malik, DJ Matusz, Benjamin Minixhofer, Jacob Morrison, Luca Soldaini, Finbarr Timbers, Pete Walsh, Noah A. Smith, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Ashish Sabharwal
arXiv AI
Jun 6

Beyond Code Pairs: Dialogue-Based Data Generation for LLM Code Translation

arXiv:2512. 03086v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in code translation, yet their performance deteriorates in low-resource programming domains such as Fortran and emerging frameworks like CUDA, where high-quality parallel data are scarce.

By Le Chen, Nuo Xu, Winson Chen, Bin Lei, Pei-Hung Lin, Dunzhi Zhou, Rajeev Thakur, Caiwen Ding, Ali Jannesari, Chunhua Liao