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Junting Pan

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preprint2026arXiv

Edit-Based Refinement for Parallel Masked Diffusion Language Models

Masked diffusion language models enable parallel token generation and offer improved decoding efficiency over autoregressive models. However, their performance degrades significantly when generating multiple tokens simultaneously, due to a mismatch between token-level training objectives and joint sequence consistency. In this paper, we propose ME-DLM, an edit-based refinement framework that augments diffusion generation with lightweight post-editing steps. After producing an initial complete response, the model refines it through minimal edit operations, including replacement, deletion, and insertion, conditioned on the full sequence. Training supervision is derived from edit distance, providing a deterministic signal under a fixed canonicalization scheme for learning minimal corrections. This approach encourages sequence-level consistency through globally conditioned edits while preserving the efficiency benefits of parallel diffusion decoding. Extensive experiments demonstrate that ME-DLM improves the quality and robustness of multi-token parallel generation. In particular, when built upon LLaDA, our method achieves consistent gains of 11.6 points on HumanEval and 33.6 points on GSM8K while using one-eighth of the total diffusion steps. Code is available at https://github.com/renhouxing/ME-DLM.

preprint2026arXiv

Masked Generative Transformer Is What You Need for Image Editing

Diffusion models dominate image editing, yet their global denoising mechanism entangles edited regions with surrounding context, causing modifications to propagate into areas that should remain intact. We propose a fundamentally different approach by leveraging Masked Generative Transformers (MGTs), whose localized token-prediction paradigm naturally confines changes to intended regions. We present EditMGT, an MGT-based editing framework that is the first of its kind. Our approach employs multi-layer attention consolidation to aggregate cross-attention maps into precise edit localization signals, and region-hold sampling to explicitly prevent token flipping in non-target areas. To support training, we construct CrispEdit-2M, a 2M-sample high-resolution (>1024) editing dataset spanning seven categories. With only 960M parameters, EditMGT achieves state-of-the-art image similarity on multiple benchmarks while delivering 6x faster editing, demonstrating that MGTs offer a compelling alternative to diffusion-based editing.

preprint2022arXiv

EdgeViTs: Competing Light-weight CNNs on Mobile Devices with Vision Transformers

Self-attention based models such as vision transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a very competitive architecture alternative to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in computer vision. Despite increasingly stronger variants with ever-higher recognition accuracies, due to the quadratic complexity of self-attention, existing ViTs are typically demanding in computation and model size. Although several successful design choices (e.g., the convolutions and hierarchical multi-stage structure) of prior CNNs have been reintroduced into recent ViTs, they are still not sufficient to meet the limited resource requirements of mobile devices. This motivates a very recent attempt to develop light ViTs based on the state-of-the-art MobileNet-v2, but still leaves a performance gap behind. In this work, pushing further along this under-studied direction we introduce EdgeViTs, a new family of light-weight ViTs that, for the first time, enable attention-based vision models to compete with the best light-weight CNNs in the tradeoff between accuracy and on-device efficiency. This is realized by introducing a highly cost-effective local-global-local (LGL) information exchange bottleneck based on optimal integration of self-attention and convolutions. For device-dedicated evaluation, rather than relying on inaccurate proxies like the number of FLOPs or parameters, we adopt a practical approach of focusing directly on on-device latency and, for the first time, energy efficiency. Specifically, we show that our models are Pareto-optimal when both accuracy-latency and accuracy-energy trade-offs are considered, achieving strict dominance over other ViTs in almost all cases and competing with the most efficient CNNs. Code is available at https://github.com/saic-fi/edgevit.

preprint2020arXiv

1st place solution for AVA-Kinetics Crossover in AcitivityNet Challenge 2020

This technical report introduces our winning solution to the spatio-temporal action localization track, AVA-Kinetics Crossover, in ActivityNet Challenge 2020. Our entry is mainly based on Actor-Context-Actor Relation Network. We describe technical details for the new AVA-Kinetics dataset, together with some experimental results. Without any bells and whistles, we achieved 39.62 mAP on the test set of AVA-Kinetics, which outperforms other entries by a large margin. Code will be available at: https://github.com/Siyu-C/ACAR-Net.