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Yong Liu

Publications 15

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SpecFold: Folding Multi-Branch Redundancy for Faster Speculative Decoding in Diffusion Language Models

Diffusion large language models (DLLMs) generate text through iterative block denoising, and multi-branch speculative decoding accelerates this process by verifying a main branch together with multiple draft branches in a single forward pass. While prior DLLM acceleration methods primarily exploit temporal redundancy a …

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Normalize-Then-Precondition: A Hierarchical Approach to Marginal Scale and Interaction Geometry for LLM Training

Zixuan Gong, Zeyu Gan, Jiaye Teng et al. · 2026

Matrix optimizers have emerged as a promising direction, with Muon standing out as a prominent design. Revisiting Muon through its full-Gram representation, we observe that it jointly processes marginal-scale and interaction information. This opens an alternative way to organize geometric information hierarchically, mo …

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Harness Evolution as Learning: Approximation, Generalization, and Optimization Limits of Self-Improving Personal Agents

As the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) continue to advance, increasing attention is turning to how to translate their abilities into useful behavior. Personal agents bring this question into everyday settings, where models are expected to serve individual users and continually adapt to their preferences. W …

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Detecting Glaucoma Across Multi-ethnic Myopic and Non-Myopic Populations Using an Uncertainty-Aware Vision Transformer: A Multicentre Model Development and Validation Study

Background: Artificial intelligence (AI)-based glaucoma detection from colour fundus photographs (CFP) offers scalable screening, but performance may decline on external datasets because of differences in ground-truth definitions, populations, and coexisting conditions such as high myopia (HM). We developed and validat …

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