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Yunchong Song

8 accepted papers

2026

Context-level Language Modeling by Learning Predictive Context Embeddings

ICML 2026poster

We propose ContextLM, a framework that implicitly learns multi-token prediction by augmenting standard pretraining with an intrinsic next-context prediction objective. ContextLM builds a language model on top of context embeddings that span multiple tokens, enabling better next-token prediction by p…

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2026

Flow of Spans: Generalizing Language Models to Dynamic Span-Vocabulary via GFlowNets

ICLR 2026poster

Standard autoregressive language models generate text token-by-token from a fixed vocabulary, inducing a *tree-structured state space* when viewing token sampling as an action, which limits flexibility and expressiveness. Recent work introduces dynamic vocabulary by sampling retrieved text spans but…

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2026

FlowRL: Matching Reward Distributions for LLM Reasoning

ICLR 2026poster

We propose FlowRL: matching the full reward distribution via flow balancing instead of solely maximizing rewards in large language model (LLM) reinforcement learning (RL). Recent advanced reasoning models adopt reward-maximizing methods (e.g., PPO and GRPO), which tend to over-optimize dominant rewa…

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2024

Cluster-wise Graph Transformer with Dual-granularity Kernelized Attention

NeurIPS 2024spotlight

In the realm of graph learning, there is a category of methods that conceptualize graphs as hierarchical structures, utilizing node clustering to capture broader structural information. While generally effective, these methods often rely on a fixed graph coarsening routine, leading to overly homogen…

2023

Ordered GNN: Ordering Message Passing to Deal with Heterophily and Over-smoothing

ICLR 2023poster

Most graph neural networks follow the message passing mechanism. However, it faces the over-smoothing problem when multiple times of message passing is applied to a graph, causing indistinguishable node representations and prevents the model to effectively learn dependencies between farther-away nod…

2023

Tailoring Self-Attention for Graph via Rooted Subtrees

NeurIPS 2023poster

Attention mechanisms have made significant strides in graph learning, yet they still exhibit notable limitations: local attention faces challenges in capturing long-range information due to the inherent problems of the message-passing scheme, while global attention cannot reflect the hierarchical ne…