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Zhihan Yang

6 accepted papers

2026

Scaling Beyond Masked Diffusion Language Models

ICML 2026poster

Diffusion language models are a promising alternative to autoregressive models due to their potential for faster generation. Among discrete diffusion approaches, Masked diffusion currently dominates, largely driven by strong perplexity on language modeling benchmarks. In this work, we present the fi…

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2025

Block Diffusion: Interpolating Between Autoregressive and Diffusion Language Models

ICLR 2025oral

Diffusion language models offer unique benefits over autoregressive models due to their potential for parallelized generation and controllability, yet they lag in likelihood modeling and are limited to fixed-length generation. In this work, we introduce a class of block diffusion language models tha…

2023

DASA: Difficulty-Aware Semantic Augmentation for Speaker Verification

ICASSP 2023accepted

Data augmentation is vital to the generalization ability and robustness of deep neural networks (DNNs) models. Existing augmentation methods for speaker verification manipulate the raw signal, which are time-consuming and the augmented samples lack diversity. In this paper, we present a novel diffic…

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2023

What Does Your Face Sound Like? 3D Face Shape towards Voice

AAAI 2023technical

Face-based speech synthesis provides a practical solution to generate voices from human faces. However, directly using 2D face images leads to the problems of uninterpretability and entanglement. In this paper, to address the issues, we introduce 3D face shape which (1) has an anatomical relationshi…

2021

Inferring Emotion from Large-scale Internet Voice Data: A Semi-supervised Curriculum Augmentation based Deep Learning Approach

AAAI 2021technical

Effective emotion inference from user queries helps to give a more personified response for Voice Dialogue Applications(VDAs). The tremendous amounts of VDA users bring in diverse emotion expressions. How to achieve a high emotion inferring performance from large-scale Internet Voice Data in VDAs? T…

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