Papers by Chenchen Jing
Beyond Hard Masks: Progressive Token Evolution for Diffusion Language Models (2026.acl-long)
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Linhao Zhong, Linyu Wu, Bozhen Fang, Tianjian Feng, Chenchen Jing, Wen Wang, Jiaheng Zhang, Hao Chen, Chunhua Shen
| Challenge: | Existing Diffusion Language Models rely on hard binary masking and discrete token assignments, which hinder the revision of early decisions. |
| Approach: | They propose a diffusion-based language modeling approach that replaces hard binary masks with evolving soft token distributions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms existing DLMs on multiple benchmarks. |
Efficient Self-Evaluation for Diffusion Language Models via Sequence Regeneration (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Non-sequential and bidirectional nature of diffusion large language models makes direct likelihood-based self-evaluation challenging. |
| Approach: | They propose a self-evaluation confidence quantification method for diffusion large language models that quantifies confidence by computing the probability of regenerating tokens in the entire generated sequence, given the full context. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method is correlated with semantic coherence and answer accuracy. |
In-Context Compositional Generalization for Large Vision-Language Models (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent work shows that in-context learning for large language models exhibits compositional generalization capacity. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to exhibit in-context compositional generalization in large vision-language models by combining visual and linguistic modalities. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method reduces redundancy and complexity in in-context learning with LVLMs. |
DREAM: Disentangling Risks to Enhance Safety Alignment in Multimodal Large Language Models (2025.naacl-long)
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Jianyu Liu, Hangyu Guo, Ranjie Duan, Xingyuan Bu, Yancheng He, Shilong Li, Hui Huang, Jiaheng Liu, Yucheng Wang, Chenchen Jing, Xingwei Qu, Xiao Zhang, Pei Wang, Yanan Wu, Jihao Gu, Yangguang Li, Jianke Zhu
| Challenge: | Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) pose unique safety challenges due to their integration of visual and textual data. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to disentangle risks through step-by-step reasoning within multimodal inputs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach improves safety alignment in MLLMs by fine-tuning and iterative Reinforcement Learning from AI feedback. |