Authors

Tian Liang

Publications 2

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Toward a Locally Deployable Agentic Co-Scientist: Small-Model Planning for Early-Stage Drug Discovery

Tian Liang, Jiayu Chang, Alejandro F. Frangi et al. · 2026

Early-stage computational drug discovery requires coordinating heterogeneous scientific tools across multi-step workflows. We present a lightweight, tool-augmented framework in which a locally deployable compact language model plans calls to 18 modular tools. A Unified Molecular Schema maintains shared molecular record …

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Preserving Mathematical Reasoning in Compressed Diffusion Language Models via Trajectory-Aware Low-Rank Approximation

Tian Liang, Zishan Shao, Yiran Chen · 2026

Diffusion language model (dLLM) compression faces a known challenge because calibration is typically performed on clean, fully visible activations, whereas inference traverses partially masked intermediate states. For low-rank compression, this raises two questions. First, can low-rank optimality still be characterized …

Co-authors

Jiayu Chang Alejandro F. Frangi Mobarak I. Hoque Richard A. Bryce Zishan Shao Yiran Chen