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Yufa Zhou

10 accepted papers

2026

Efficient Reasoning with Hidden Thinking

ICML 2026poster

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning has become a powerful framework for improving complex problem-solving capabilities in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). However, the verbose nature of textual reasoning introduces significant inefficiencies. In this work, we propose**Heima** (as hidden llama)…

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2026

Fastcar: Cache Attentive Replay for Fast Auto-Regressive Video Generation on the Edge

ICLR 2026poster

Auto-regressive (AR) models, initially successful in language generation, have recently shown promise in visual generation tasks due to their superior sampling efficiency. Unlike image generation, video generation requires a substantially larger number of tokens to produce coherent temporal frames,…

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2026

Grounding and Enhancing Informativeness and Utility in Dataset Distillation

ICLR 2026poster

Dataset Distillation (DD) seeks to create a compact dataset from a large, real-world dataset. While recent methods often rely on heuristic approaches to balance efficiency and quality, the fundamental relationship between original and synthetic data remains underexplored. This paper revisits knowled…

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2026

The Geometry of Reasoning: Flowing Logics in Representation Space

ICLR 2026poster

We study how large language models (LLMs) “think” through their representation space. We propose a novel geometric framework that models an LLM’s reasoning as flows—embedding trajectories evolving where logic goes. We disentangle logical structure from semantics by employing the same natural deduc…

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2025

Beyond Linear Approximations: A Novel Pruning Approach for Attention Matrix

ICLR 2025poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown immense potential in enhancing various aspects of our daily lives, from conversational AI to search and AI assistants. However, their growing capabilities come at the cost of extremely large model sizes, making deployment on edge devices challenging due to mem…

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2025

Efficient Multi-modal Large Language Models via Progressive Consistency Distillation

NeurIPS 2025poster

Visual tokens consume substantial computational resources in multi-modal large models (MLLMs), significantly compromising their efficiency. Recent works have attempted to improve efficiency by compressing visual tokens during training, either through modifications to model components or by introduci…

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2025

LazyDiT: Lazy Learning for the Acceleration of Diffusion Transformers

AAAI 2025technical

Diffusion Transformers have emerged as the preeminent models for a wide array of generative tasks, demonstrating superior performance and efficacy across various applications. The promising results come at the cost of slow inference, as each denoising step requires running the whole transformer mode…

2025

Looped ReLU MLPs May Be All You Need as Practical Programmable Computers

AISTATS 2025poster

Previous work has demonstrated that attention mechanisms are Turing complete. More recently, it has been shown that a looped 9-layer Transformer can function as a universal programmable computer. In contrast, the multi-layer perceptrons with $\mathsf{ReLU}$ activation ($\mathsf{ReLU}$-$\mathsf{MLP}$…

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2025

Numerical Pruning for Efficient Autoregressive Models

AAAI 2025technical

Transformers have emerged as the leading architecture in deep learning, proving to be versatile and highly effective across diverse domains beyond language and image processing. However, their impressive performance often incurs high computational costs due to their substantial model size. This pape…

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2025

Unraveling the Smoothness Properties of Diffusion Models: A Gaussian Mixture Perspective

ICCV 2025poster

Diffusion models have made rapid progress in generating high-quality samples across various domains. However, a theoretical understanding of the Lipschitz continuity and second momentum properties of the diffusion process is still lacking. In this paper, we bridge this gap by providing a detailed ex…

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