Autoregressive and diffusion models represent two complementary generative paradigms. Autoregressive models excel at sequential planning and constraint composition, yet struggle with tasks that require explicit spatial or physical grounding. Diffusion models, in contrast, capture rich spatial structure through high-dimensional generation, but lack the stepwise logical control needed to satisfy complex, multi-stage constraints or to reliably identify and correct errors. We introduce Collaborative Thoughts, a unified collaborative framework that enables autoregressive and diffusion models to reason and generate jointly through a closed-loop interaction. In Collaborative Thoughts, autoregressive models perform structured planning and constraint management, diffusion models instantiate these constraints as intermediate visual thoughts, and a vision-based critic module evaluates whether the visual thoughts satisfy the intended structural and physical requirements. This feedback is then used to iteratively refine subsequent planning and generation steps, mitigating error propagation across modalities. Importantly, Collaborative Thoughts uses the same collaborative loop regardless of whether the task is autoregressive question answering or diffusion-based visual generation. Through representative examples, we illustrate how Collaborative Thoughts can improve the reliability of spatial reasoning and the controllability of generation.
Benchmarking Multi-Step Legal Reasoning and Analyzing Chain-of-Thought Effects in Large Language Models
School of Artificial Intelligence, Beihang University, Beijing, China(北京航空航天大学人工智能学院);KoGuan School of Law, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China(上海交通大学KoGuan法学院);School of Criminal Law, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, China(中国政法大学刑事法律学院)
Unlocking the Working Memory of Large Language Models for Latent Reasoning
ELLIS Unit Linz and LIT AI Lab, Institute for Machine Learning, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria(林茨ELLIS单元和LIT AI实验室,机器学习研究所,约翰·凯撒大学林茨,奥地利);NXAI GmbH, Linz, Austria(NXAI公司,林茨,奥地利)
Adaptive Look, Flexible Thought: Learning How and How Long to Think in Multimodal Reasoning
Sun Yat-sen University(中山大学);Shenzhen Loop Area Institute(深圳河套学院);Beijing Zhongguancun Academy(北京中关村研究院);Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd(华为技术有限公司);Harbin Institute of Technology(哈尔滨工业大学)
GOT4Rec: Graph of Thoughts for Sequential Recommendation
NLPR, MAIS, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院自动化研究所);School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学人工智能学院)
Jupiter: Fast and Resource-Efficient Collaborative Inference of Generative LLMs on Edge Devices
School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University(中山大学计算机科学与工程学院);The Chinese University of Hong Kong(香港中文大学);Data Science and Analytics Thrust, HKUST (Guangzhou)(香港科技大学(广州)数据科学与分析学域);Midea Group(美的集团)
A Theory of Learning with Autoregressive Chain of Thought
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago(丰田技术研究所(芝加哥));Weizmann Institute of Science(魏兹曼科学研究院);Microsoft Research, NYC(微软研究院(纽约));University of Pennsylvania(宾夕法尼亚大学);Yale University(耶鲁大学)
Balancing Efficiency and Efficacy: Training-Free Attention-Guided Switching Between Explicit and Latent Thoughts for MLLMs
Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen(哈尔滨工业大学(深圳));Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University(清华大学深圳国际研究生院);Peng Cheng Laboratory(鹏城实验室);Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院深圳先进技术研究院)
Building Machines that Learn and Think with People
University of Cambridge(剑桥大学);Princeton University(普林斯顿大学);NYU(纽约大学);The Alan Turing Institute(艾伦·图灵研究所);MIT(麻省理工学院);Microsoft Research(微软研究院);University of Chicago(芝加哥大学)
Adaptive Reasoning Executor: A Collaborative Agent System for Efficient Reasoning
Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Incubation Institute, Fudan University(复旦大学人工智能创新与孵化院);School of Data Science, Fudan University(复旦大学数据科学学院);Shanghai Academy of Artificial Intelligence for Science(上海人工智能科学研究院)
Tsinghua University(清华大学);Institute for Artificial Intelligence(人工智能研究院);State Key Lab of Intelligent Technology and Systems(智能技术与系统国家重点实验室);Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology(北京信息科学与技术国家研究中心)
Given that rich information is hidden behind ubiquitous numbers in text, numerical reasoning over text should be an essential skill of AI systems. To derive precise equations to solve numerical reasoning problems, previous work focused on modeling the structures of equations, and has proposed various structured decoders. Though structure modeling proves to be effective, these structured decoders construct a single equation in a pre-defined autoregressive order, potentially placing an unnecessary restriction on how a model should grasp the reasoning process. Intuitively, humans may have numerou…
LaViT: Aligning Latent Visual Thoughts for Multi-modal Reasoning
City University of Hong Kong(香港城市大学);University of Science and Technology of China(中国科学技术大学);Utrecht University(乌特勒支大学);University of Electronic Science and Technology of China(电子科技大学)
Why Diffusion Language Models Struggle with Truly Parallel (Non-Autoregressive) Decoding?
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China(香港理工大学);ELLIS Institute Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany(图宾根ELLIS研究所);Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany(智能系统马克斯·普朗克研究所);Tübingen AI Center, Tübingen, Germany(图宾根人工智能中心);University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom(萨里大学);The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA(北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校)
Not All Thoughts are Generated Equal: Efficient LLM Reasoning via Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning
AI Thrust, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)(香港科学与技术大学(广州)人工智能方向);Didichuxing Co. Ltd(滴滴出行有限公司);CSE, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology(香港科学与技术大学计算机科学与工程系)
Google Research(谷歌研究);TReNDS Center, Georgia State University(TReNDS中心,佐治亚州立大学);Maynooth University(迈诺特大学);Georgia State University/Georgia Institute of Technology/Emory University Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS Center)(佐治亚州立大学/佐治亚理工学院/埃默里大学神经影像与数据科学转化研究中心(TReNDS中心));Department of Computer Science, Maynooth University(迈诺特大学计算机科学系)
Collaborative Temporal Feature Generation via Critic-Free Reinforcement Learning for Cross-User Sensor-Based Activity Recognition
School of Artificial Intelligence (School of Future Technology), Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology(信息科学与技术大学人工智能学院);School of Cyberspace Security, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology(信息科学与技术大学网络空间安全学院);Jinling Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University(南京大学附属医院金陵医院);Department of Electrical, Computer, and Software Engineering, The University of Auckland(奥克兰大学电气、计算机和软件工程系)