Publications & Manuscripts

Full author lists and current manuscript statuses are listed below. See also my Google Scholar profile.

† Equal contribution (co-first authors).

Accepted Papers

Preprints & Manuscripts

Stability-Weighted Decoding for Diffusion Language Models

Yue Wu, Jian Huang.

Under review at ICLR 2027.

An information-theoretic connection between temporal token instability and masked-context dependency motivates stability-aware decoding. On LLaDA-8B, mean accuracy increases from 25.63% to 41.08% across four benchmarks while average forward evaluations decrease by 22.7%.

Bootstrapped On-Policy Distillation (BOPD)

Yue Wu, Xueyu Zhou, Yangrong Hu, Jian Huang.

Under review at ICLR 2027.

A two-stage framework bootstraps a task-adapted teacher through reference-conditioned self-distillation, then trains an independent student via on-policy distillation. On Qwen3-4B, mean mathematical reasoning accuracy improves from 18.06% to 23.98%, surpassing the constructed teacher.

FamiFT: Familiarity-Adaptive Supervised Fine-Tuning

Yue Wu, Yangrong Hu, Xueyu Zhou, Jian Huang.

Under review at ICLR 2027.

Familiarity-adaptive token weighting based on pretrained-model familiarity improves mean mathematical reasoning accuracy from 21.32% to 37.20% over standard SFT on Qwen2.5-Math-7B.

Self-Privileged Fine-Tuning (SPFT)

Yangrong Hu, Xueyu Zhou, Yue Wu, Jian Huang.

Under review at ICLR 2027.

Privileged-information-guided token weighting uses a frozen, reference-conditioned model without external teachers or on-policy rollouts, improving mean mathematical reasoning accuracy from 36.41% to 47.80% over standard SFT on Qwen3-8B-Base.