Yihao Liu

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at general language tasks but struggle in specialized domains. Specialized Generalist Models (SGMs) address this by preserving broad capabilities while adapting to target domains. However, existing architectures provide limited support for task-guided specialize...

Autoregressive (AR) language modeling remains the dominant paradigm due to its dense supervision signal and highly optimized serving infrastructure, but its strictly causal, token-by-token decoding limits parallelism and non-causal modeling. While masked diffusion offers a promising path toward p...