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Lawrence Zhao
dblp:371/9001
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Generative modeling · 67% Language models and text generation · 33% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › pre-trained language model
causal language model |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Non-Markovian Discrete Diffusion with Causal Language Models · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling
diffusion model |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Non-Markovian Discrete Diffusion with Causal Language Models · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling › diffusion model
discrete diffusion model |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Non-Markovian Discrete Diffusion with Causal Language Models · NeurIPS 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
transformer · 0.9pretrained LLM weight reuse · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Non-Markovian Discrete Diffusion with Causal Language ModelsabstractDiscrete diffusion models offer a flexible, controllable approach to structured sequence generation, yet they still lag behind causal language models in expressive power. A key limitation lies in their reliance on the Markovian assumption, which restricts each step to condition only on the current state, leading to potential uncorrectable error accumulation.
In this paper, We introduce CaDDi, a discrete diffusion model that conditions on the entire generative trajectory, thereby lifting the Markov constraint and allowing the model to revisit and improve past states. By unifying sequential (causal) and temporal (diffusion) reasoning in a single non‑Markovian transformer, CaDDi also treats standard causal language models as a special case and permits the direct reuse of pretrained LLM weights with no architectural changes. Empirically, CaDDi outperforms state‑of‑the‑art discrete diffusion baselines on natural‑language benchmarks, substantially narrowing the remaining gap to large autoregressive transformers. Yangtian Zhang, Sizhuang He, Daniel LeVine, Lawrence Zhao, Syed Asad Rizvi, Shiyang Zhang, Emanuele Zappala, Rex Ying, David van Dijk |
NeurIPS | 4 |