publications

2026

1. ArXiv

   Multi-Block Diffusion Language Models

   Yijie Jin, Jiajun Xu, Yuxuan Liu, and 8 more authors

   ArXiv Preprint, 2026

   arXiv Bib PDF

   @article{jin2026mbd,
     title = {Multi-Block Diffusion Language Models},
     author = {Jin, Yijie and Xu, Jiajun and Liu, Yuxuan and Xu, Chenkai and Tu, Yi and Li, Jiajun and Tu, Dandan and Yan, Xiaohui and Yu, Kai and Liu, Pengfei and Deng, Zhijie},
     journal = {ArXiv Preprint},
     year = {2026},
   }

2. ICML

   LightningRL: Breaking the Accuracy–Parallelism Trade-off of Block-wise dLLMs via Reinforcement Learning

   Yanzhe Hu, Yijie Jin, Pengfei Liu, and 2 more authors

   International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026

   arXiv Bib PDF Code

   @article{hu2026lightningrl,
     title = {LightningRL: Breaking the Accuracy–Parallelism Trade-off of Block-wise dLLMs via Reinforcement Learning},
     author = {Hu, Yanzhe and Jin, Yijie and Liu, Pengfei and Yu, Kai and Deng, Zhijie},
     journal = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
     year = {2026},
   }

3. ICLR

   Diffusion LLMs Can Do Faster-Than-AR Inference via Discrete Diffusion Forcing

   Xu Wang, Chenkai Xu, Yijie Jin, and 3 more authors

   International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026

   arXiv Bib PDF Code

   @article{wang2025d2f,
     title = {Diffusion LLMs Can Do Faster-Than-AR Inference via Discrete Diffusion Forcing},
     author = {Wang, Xu and Xu, Chenkai and Jin, Yijie and Jin, Jiachun and Zhang, Hao and Deng, Zhijie},
     journal = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
     year = {2026},
   }

2025

1. ArXiv

   LoPA: Scaling dLLM Inference via Lookahead Parallel Decoding

   Chenkai Xu^*, Yijie Jin^*, Jiajun Li, and 8 more authors

   ArXiv Preprint, 2025

   arXiv Bib PDF Code

   @article{xu2025lopa,
     title = {LoPA: Scaling dLLM Inference via Lookahead Parallel Decoding},
     author = {Xu, Chenkai and Jin, Yijie and Li, Jiajun and Tu, Yi and Long, Guoping and Tu, Dandan and Song, Mingcong and Si, Hongjie and Hou, Tianqi and Yan, Junchi and Deng, Zhijie},
     journal = {ArXiv Preprint},
     year = {2025},
   }

2. ACL

   Multimodal Transformers are Hierarchical Modal-wise Heterogeneous Graphs

   Yijie Jin, Junjie Peng, Xuanchao Lin, and 3 more authors

   Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025

   Bib PDF Code

   @article{jin2025gsit,
     title = {Multimodal Transformers are Hierarchical Modal-wise Heterogeneous Graphs},
     author = {Jin, Yijie and Peng, Junjie and Lin, Xuanchao and Yuan, Haochen and Wang, Lan and Zheng, Cangzhi},
     journal = {Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)},
     year = {2025},
   }