Adds a Next Concept Prediction objective that predicts discrete, product-quantized latent concepts spanning multiple tokens alongside next-token prediction, yielding faster pretraining convergence and measurable downstream gains with an 8.9B-parameter latent-space LLM.
AI Audio2026
Ruibin Yuan, Hanfeng Lin +56Multimodal Art Projection (MAP), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Generates full songs from lyrics and a style prompt, producing vocals and accompaniment and exporting editable symbolic scores for melody/chord control. Uses symbolic planning with agentic multi-turn editing and runs local 48 kHz inference on a 24GB GPU.
AI Model2026
A multimodal Mixture-of-Experts foundation model with a million-token context window; uses a causal encoder–decoder layout and aggressive KV-cache compression (~890 bytes/token) to limit per-token activation to 8B/16B—designed for long-context, agentic, and multimodal workloads.
Haojun Zhang, Yi Zou +8Affiliation: Xini Ding, Hao Li, Shuchang Zhou, Xianming Liu, Shiyu Huang‡, Affiliation: XPeng Inc.
Progressively prunes and distills audio encoders for speech LLMs to cut inference cost while preserving decoder-facing embeddings, using behavioral probes, representation alignment, cross-scale distillation and LoRA finetuning; reports reduced macro-error on Chinese–English benchmarks.