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Pengxiang Li

19 accepted papers

2026

Beyond Scattered Acceptance: Fast and Coherent Inference for DLMs via Longest Stable Prefixes

ICLR 2026poster

Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) promise parallel generation via iterative denoising, yet their practical speed is often throttled by \emph{schedulers} that accept scattered high-confidence tokens, fragmenting KV caches and forcing repeated local repairs. We present \emph{Prefix Absorption}, a train…

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2026

Demystifying the Roles of LLM Layers in Retrieval, Knowledge, and Reasoning

ICASSP 2026poster

Recent studies suggest that the deeper layers of Large Language Models (LLMs) contribute little to representation learning and can often be removed without significant performance loss. However, such claims are typically drawn from narrow evaluations and may overlook important aspects of model behav…

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2026

Diffusion Language Model Knows the Answer Before It Decodes

ICLR 2026oral

Diffusion language models (DLMs) have recently emerged as an alternative to autoregressive approaches, offering parallel sequence generation and flexible token orders. However, their inference remains slower than that of autoregressive models, primarily due to the cost of bidirectional attention and…

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2026

Discrete Diffusion for Reflective Vision-Language-Action Models in Autonomous Driving

ICLR 2026poster

End-to-End (E2E) solutions have emerged as a mainstream approach for autonomous driving systems, with Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models representing a new paradigm that leverages pre-trained multimodal knowledge from Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to interpret and interact with complex real-world e…

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2026

DriveAgent-R1: Advancing VLM-based Autonomous Driving with Active Perception and Hybrid Thinking

ICLR 2026poster

The advent of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) has significantly advanced end-to-end autonomous driving, demonstrating powerful reasoning abilities for high-level behavior planning tasks. However, existing methods are often constrained by a passive perception paradigm, relying solely on text-based reas…

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2026

InfiGUI-G1: Advancing GUI Grounding with Adaptive Exploration Policy Optimization

AAAI 2026technical

The emergence of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has propelled the development of autonomous agents that operate on Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) using pure visual input. A fundamental challenge is robustly grounding natural language instructions. This requires a precise spatial alignmen

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2026

Modality Alignment across Trees on Heterogeneous Hyperbolic Manifolds

ICLR 2026poster

Modality alignment is critical for vision-language models (VLMs) to effectively integrate information across modalities. However, existing methods extract hierarchical features from text while representing each image with a single feature, leading to asymmetric and suboptimal alignment. To address t…

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2026

SynthRGB-T: Language-Vision Guided Image Translation for Diversity Synthesis

CVPR 2026

Bridging the modality gap between infrared and visible imagery is critical for cross-modal understanding and for enriching multimodal benchmarks. However, existing approaches remain confined to one-to-one mappings and are typically evaluated on unidirectional or closed-set scenarios. To address this

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2026

TransDiffuser: Diverse Trajectory Generation with Decorrelated Multi-Modal Representation for End-To-End Autonomous Driving

ICRA 2026poster

In recent years, diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable potential across diverse domains, from vision generation to language modeling. Transferring its generative capabilities to modern end-to-end autonomous driving systems has also emerged as a promising direction. However, existing diffusio…

2025

Adaptive Classifier-Free Guidance via Dynamic Low-Confidence Masking

NeurIPS 2025poster

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) significantly enhances controllability in generative models by interpolating conditional and unconditional predictions. However, standard CFG often employs a static unconditional input, which can be suboptimal for iterative generation processes where model uncertainty…

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2025

From Objects to Anywhere: A Holistic Benchmark for Multi-level Visual Grounding in 3D Scenes

NeurIPS 2025poster

3D visual grounding has made notable progress in localizing objects within complex 3D scenes. However, grounding referring expressions beyond objects in 3D scenes remains unexplored. In this paper, we introduce Anywhere3D-Bench, a holistic 3D visual grounding benchmark consisting of 2,886 referring…

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2025

GPAS: Accelerating Convergence of LLM Pretraining via Gradient-Preserving Activation Scaling

NeurIPS 2025poster

Modern Large Language Models, such as the LLaMA, Qwen and DeepSeek series, predominantly adopt the Pre-LayerNorm (Pre-LN) Transformer architecture. While being stable during pretraining and scalable to large model sizes, Pre-LN suffers from an exponential growth in activation variance across layers,…

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2025

Iterative Tool Usage Exploration for Multimodal Agents via Step-wise Preference Tuning

NeurIPS 2025poster

Multimodal agents, which integrate a controller (e.g., a vision language model) with external tools, have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in tackling complex multimodal tasks. Existing approaches for training these agents, both supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning, depend on extens…

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2025

Mix-LN: Unleashing the Power of Deeper Layers by Combining Pre-LN and Post-LN

ICLR 2025poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success, yet recent findings reveal that their deeper layers often contribute minimally and can be pruned without affecting overall performance. While some view this as an opportunity for model compression, we identify it as a training shortfall…

2025

Multi-modal Agent Tuning: Building a VLM-Driven Agent for Efficient Tool Usage

ICLR 2025spotlight

The advancement of large language models (LLMs) prompts the development of multi-modal agents, which are used as a controller to call external tools, providing a feasible way to solve practical tasks. In this paper, we propose a multi-modal agent tuning method that automatically generates multi-moda…

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2025

The Curse of Depth in Large Language Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

In this paper, we re-introduce the Curse of Depth, a concept that re-introduces, explains, and addresses the recent observation in modern Large Language Models (LLMs) where deeper layers are much less effective than expected. We first confirm the wide existence of this phenomenon across the most pop…

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2024

FIRE: A Dataset for Feedback Integration and Refinement Evaluation of Multimodal Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

Vision language models (VLMs) have achieved impressive progress in diverse applications, becoming a prevalent research direction. In this paper, we build FIRE, a feedback-refinement dataset, consisting of 1.1M multi-turn conversations that are derived from 27 source datasets, empowering VLMs to spon…

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