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Jian Xu

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No Task Vector Is an Island: A Comprehensive Study on the Composability of Task Vectors from On-Policy Distillation

Jingang Zhou, Feiyu Han, Han Zhu et al. · 2026

Task vectors provide a simple mechanism for composing learned capabilities through model merging. However, the composability of task vectors produced by on-policy distillation (OPD) remains largely unexplored. OPD trains a student using teacher feedback on student-generated trajectories, yielding parameter updates that …

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What Does a Stream Model Buy You in Flow Matching?

Jian Xu · 2026

Stream-level flow matching replaces the linear interpolant of conditional flow matching (CFM) by a Gaussian-process (GP) stream connecting each source--target pair, and reports lower sample error than \icfm{} on 2-Gaussian, MNIST and CIFAR-10 benchmarks. We ask what such a stream model actually contributes. Three resul …

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