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Computer Vision · 3D Rendering & Reconstruction

Ruiyu Wang, Shizhao Sun, Weijian Ma, Jiang Bian

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) is a foundational component of industrial prototyping. where models are defined not by raw coordinates but by construction sequences such as sketches and extrusions. This sequential structure enables both efficient prototype initialization and subsequent editing. Text-guided CAD prototyping, which unifies Text-to-CAD generation and CAD editing, has the potential to streamline the entire design pipeline. However, prior work has not explored this setting, largely because standard large language model (LLM) tokenizers decompose CAD sequences into natural-language word pieces, failing to capture primitive-level CAD semantics and hindering attention modules from modeling geometric structure. We conjecture that a multimodal tokenization strategy, aligned with CAD’s primitive and structural nature, can provide more effective representations. To this end, we propose CAD-Tokenizer, a framework that represents CAD data with modality-specific tokens using a sequence-based VQ-VAE with primitive-level pooling and constrained decoding. This design produces compact, primitive-aware representations that align with CAD’s structural nature. Applied to unified text-guided CAD prototyping, CAD-Tokenizer significantly improves instruction following and generation quality, achieving better quantitative and qualitative performance over both general-purpose LLMs and task-specific baselines.

Social Aspects · Trustworthy Machine Learning

Xudong Zhu, Mohammad Mahdi Khalili, Zhihui Zhu

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have emerged as powerful techniques for interpretability of large language models (LLMs), aiming to decompose hidden states into meaningful semantic features. While several SAE variants have been proposed, there remains no principled framework to derive SAEs from the original dictionary learning formulation. In this work, we introduce such a framework by unrolling the proximal gradient method for sparse coding. We show that a single-step update naturally recovers common SAE variants, including ReLU, JumpReLU, and TopK. Through this lens, we reveal a fundamental limitation of existing SAEs: their sparsity-inducing regularizers enforce non-negativity, preventing a single feature from representing bidirectional concepts (e.g., male vs. female). This structural constraint fragments semantic axes into separate, redundant features, limiting representational completeness. To address this issue, we propose AbsTopK SAE, a new variant derived from the $\ell_0$ sparsity constraint that applies hard thresholding over the largest-magnitude activations. By preserving both positive and negative activations, AbsTopK uncovers richer, bidirectional conceptual representations. Comprehensive experiments across multiple LLMs and seven probing and steering tasks show that AbsTopK improves reconstruction fidelity, enhances interpretability, and enables single features to encode contrasting concepts. Remarkably, AbsTopK matches or even surpasses the Difference-in-Mean method—a supervised approach that requires labeled data for each concept and has been shown in prior work to outperform SAEs.

General Machine Learning · Representation Learning

Xiangjian Jiang, Nikola Simidjievski, Mateja Jamnik

Evaluating tabular generators remains a challenging problem, as the unique causal structural prior of heterogeneous tabular data does not lend itself to intuitive human inspection. Recent work has introduced structural fidelity as a tabular-specific evaluation dimension to assess whether synthetic data complies with the causal structures of real data. However, existing benchmarks often neglect the interplay between structural fidelity and conventional evaluation dimensions, thus failing to provide a holistic understanding of model performance. Moreover, they are typically limited to toy datasets, as quantifying existing structural fidelity metrics requires access to ground-truth causal structures, which are rarely available for real-world datasets. In this paper, we propose a novel evaluation framework that jointly considers structural fidelity and conventional evaluation dimensions. We introduce a new evaluation metric, global utility, which enables the assessment of structural fidelity even in the absence of ground-truth causal structures. In addition, we present TabStruct, a comprehensive evaluation benchmark offering large-scale quantitative analysis on 13 tabular generators from nine distinct categories, across 29 datasets. Our results demonstrate that global utility provides a task-independent, domain-agnostic lens for tabular generator performance. We release the TabStruct benchmark suite, including all datasets, evaluation pipelines, and raw results. Code is available at https://github.com/SilenceX12138/TabStruct.

Yuxuan Zhou, Fei Huang, Heng Li, Fengyi Wu, Tianyu Wang, jianwei zhang, Junyang Lin, Zhi-Qi Cheng

Verification is a key bottleneck in improving inference speed while maintaining distribution fidelity in Speculative Decoding. Recent work has shown that sequence-level verification leads to a higher number of accepted tokens compared to token-wise verification. However, existing solutions often rely on surrogate approximations or are constrained by partial information, struggling with joint intractability. In this work, we propose \emph{Hierarchical Speculative Decoding (HSD)}, a provably lossless verification method that significantly boosts the expected number of accepted tokens and overcomes joint intractability by balancing excess and deficient probability mass across accessible branches. Our extensive large-scale experiments demonstrate that HSD yields consistent improvements in acceptance rates across diverse model families and benchmarks. Moreover, its strong explainability and generality make it readily integrable into a wide range of speculative decoding frameworks. Notably, integrating HSD into EAGLE-3 yields over a 12\% performance gain, establishing state-of-the-art decoding efficiency without compromising distribution fidelity. Code is available at https://github.com/ZhouYuxuanYX/Hierarchical-Speculative-Decoding.

Tao Sun, Enhao Pan, Zhengkai Yang, Kaixin Sui, Jiajun Shi, Xianfu Cheng, Tongliang Li, Ge Zhang, Wenhao Huang, Jian Yang 等

Academic posters are vital for scholarly communication, yet their manual creation is time-consuming. However, automated academic poster generation faces significant challenges in preserving intricate scientific details and achieving effective visual-textual integration. Existing approaches often struggle with semantic richness, structural nuances, and lack standardized benchmarks for evaluating generated academic posters comprehensively. To address these limitations, we introduce P2P, the first flexible, LLM-based multi-agent framework that generates high-quality, HTML-rendered academic posters directly from research papers. P2P employs three specialized agents—for visual element processing, content generation, and final poster assembly—each integrated with dedicated checker modules to enable iterative refinement and ensure output quality. To foster advancements and rigorous evaluation in this domain, we argue that generated posters must be assessed from two complementary perspectives: objective fidelity and subjective quality. So we establish P2Peval, a comprehensive benchmark featuring 1738 checklist items and a dual evaluation methodology (Fine-Grained and Universal). Our Fine-Grained Evaluation uses human-annotated checklists to objectively measure the faithful preservation of verifiable content from the source paper. Concurrently, our Universal Evaluation captures subjective, holistic quality by training a model to align with human aesthetic preferences across key design principles. We evaluate a total of 35 models. To power these advancements, we also release P2Pinstruct, the first large-scale instruction dataset comprising over 30,000 high-quality examples tailored for the academic paper-to-poster generation task. Furthermore, our contributions aim to streamline research dissemination while offering a principled blueprint for evaluating complex, creative AI-generated artifacts. The code is on the GitHub, https://github.com/multimodal-art-projection/P2P.

Reinforcement Learning · Planning

Kuang-Da Wang, Teng-Ruei Chen, Yu Heng Hung, Guo-Xun Ko, Shuoyang Ding, Yueh-Hua Wu, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang, Chao-Han Huck Yang, Wen-Chih Peng, Ping-Chun Hsieh

Aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with human preferences through finetuning is resource-intensive, motivating lightweight alternatives at test time. We address test-time alignment through the lens of sequential decision making, a perspective that reveals two fundamental challenges. When actions are defined at the token level, as in guided decoding, alignment suffers from the curse of horizon. Conversely, when actions are at the response level, as in traditional iterative refinement, the curse of dimensionality emerges. To resolve this trade-off, we draw inspiration from Model Predictive Control (MPC) in control theory to propose Textual Model Predictive Control (TMPC), a novel predictive planning framework adapted for aligning LLMs at inference time. A key limitation of standard MPC is its reliance on predefined, hard segment boundaries, which are often absent in text generation. TMPC overcomes this by introducing two principles inspired by hierarchical reinforcement learning: (1) Hindsight Subgoal Identification, where TMPC analyzes generation subgoals to retrospectively identify high-reward intermediate outputs as subgoals. This allows the framework to discover meaningful, task-specific planning steps (e.g., a sentence in machine translation or a bug fix in code generation.). (2) Subgoal-Conditioned Re-Generation, where these identified subgoals are used to guide subsequent planning iterations. By conditioning on these proven, high-quality subgoals, TMPC ensures stable improvement by building upon previously validated successes. TMPC is evaluated on three tasks with distinct segmentation properties: discourse-level translation, long-form response generation, and program synthesis. The results demonstrate that TMPC consistently improves performance, highlighting the generality. Project page: https://rl-bandits-lab.github.io/TMPC/.

Applications · Chemistry and Drug Discovery

Joongwon Lee, Seonghwan Kim, Seokhyun Moon, Hyunwoo Kim, Woo Youn Kim

We introduce FragFM, a novel hierarchical framework via fragment-level discrete flow matching for efficient molecular graph generation. FragFM generates molecules at the fragment level, leveraging a coarse-to-fine autoencoder to reconstruct details at the atom level. Together with a stochastic fragment bag strategy to effectively handle a large fragment space, our framework enables more efficient, scalable molecular generation. We demonstrate that our fragment-based approach achieves better property control than the atom-based method and additional flexibility through conditioning the fragment bag. We also propose a Natural Product Generation benchmark (NPGen) to evaluate the ability of modern molecular graph generative models to generate natural product-like molecules. Since natural products are biologically prevalidated and differ from typical drug-like molecules, our benchmark provides a more challenging yet meaningful evaluation relevant to drug discovery. We conduct a comparative study of FragFM against various models on diverse molecular generation benchmarks, including NPGen, demonstrating superior performance. The results highlight the potential of fragment-based generative modeling for large-scale, property-aware molecular design, paving the way for more efficient exploration of chemical space.

Reinforcement Learning · Deep RL

Ming-Hong Chen, Kuan-Chen Pan, You-De Huang, Xi Liu, Ping-Chun Hsieh

Cross-domain reinforcement learning (CDRL) is meant to improve the data efficiency of RL by leveraging the data samples collected from a source domain to facilitate the learning in a similar target domain. Despite its potential, cross-domain transfer in RL is known to have two fundamental and intertwined challenges: (i) The source and target domains can have distinct state space or action space, and this makes direct transfer infeasible and thereby requires more sophisticated inter-domain mappings; (ii) The transferability of a source-domain model in RL is not easily identifiable a priori, and hence CDRL can be prone to negative effect during transfer. In this paper, we propose to jointly tackle these two challenges through the lens of \textit{cross-domain Bellman consistency} and \textit{hybrid critic}. Specifically, we first introduce the notion of cross-domain Bellman consistency as a way to measure transferability of a source-domain model. Then, we propose $Q$Avatar, which combines the Q functions from both the source and target domains with an adaptive hyperparameter-free weight function. Through this design, we characterize the convergence behavior of $Q$Avatar and show that $Q$Avatar achieves reliable transfer in the sense that it effectively leverages a source-domain Q function for knowledge transfer to the target domain. Through experiments, we demonstrate that $Q$Avatar achieves favorable transferability across various RL benchmark tasks, including locomotion and robot arm manipulation. Our code is available at https://rl-bandits-lab.github.io/Cross-Domain-RL/.

Deep Learning · Algorithms

Yifan Zhu, 慧强 荣, Haoran Luo

Large Language Models (LLMs) often hallucinate, generating content inconsistent with the input. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF) can mitigate hallucinations but require resource-intensive retrieval or large-scale fine-tuning. Decoding-based methods are lighter yet lack explicit hallucination control. To address this, we present \textbf{Token-Guard}, a token-level hallucination control method based on self-checking decoding. Token-Guard performs internal verification at each reasoning step to detect hallucinated tokens before they propagate. Candidate fragments are further evaluated in a latent space with explicit hallucination risk scoring, while iterative pruning and regeneration dynamically correct detected errors. Experiments on HALU datasets show Token-Guard substantially reduces hallucinations and improves generation accuracy, offering a scalable, lightweight solution for reliable LLM outputs. Our code is publicly available\footnote{\url{https://github.com/rhq945/Token-Guard}}.

Reinforcement Learning · Deep RL

Ying-Tu Chen, Wei Hung, Bing-Shu Wu, Zhang-Wei Hong, Ping-Chun Hsieh

Many sequential decision-making tasks involve optimizing multiple conflicting objectives, requiring policies that adapt to different user preferences. In multi-objective reinforcement learning (MORL), one widely studied approach addresses this by training a single policy network conditioned on preference-weighted rewards. In this paper, we explore a novel algorithmic perspective: leveraging reward-free reinforcement learning (RFRL) for MORL. While RFRL has historically been studied independently of MORL, it learns optimal policies for any possible reward function, making it a natural fit for MORL's challenge of handling unknown user preferences. We propose using the RFRL's training objective as an auxiliary task to enhance MORL, enabling more effective knowledge sharing beyond the multi-objective reward function given at training time. To this end, we adapt a state-of-the-art RFRL algorithm to the MORL setting and introduce a preference-guided exploration strategy that focuses learning on relevant parts of the environment. Through extensive experiments and ablation studies, we demonstrate that our approach significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art MORL methods across diverse MO-Gymnasium tasks, achieving superior performance and data efficiency. This work provides the first systematic adaptation of RFRL to MORL, demonstrating its potential as a scalable and empirically effective solution to multi-objective policy learning.

Yuyang Wang, Jiarui Lu, Navdeep Jaitly, Joshua Susskind, MIGUEL ANGEL BAUTISTA

Protein folding models have achieved groundbreaking results typically via a combination of integrating domain knowledge into the architectural blocks and training pipelines. Nonetheless, given the success of generative models across different but related problems, it is natural to question whether these architectural designs are a necessary condition to build performant models. In this paper, we introduce SimpleFold, the first flow-matching based protein folding model that solely uses general purpose transformer blocks}. Protein folding models typically employ computationally expensive modules involving triangular updates, explicit pair representations or multiple training objectives curated for this specific domain. Instead, SimpleFold employs standard transformer blocks with adaptive layers and is trained via a generative flow-matching objective with an additional structural term. We scale SimpleFold to 3B parameters and train it on approximately 9M distilled protein structures together with experimental PDB data. On standard folding benchmarks, SimpleFold-3B achieves competitive performance compared to state-of-the-art baselines, in addition SimpleFold demonstrates strong performance in ensemble prediction which is typically difficult for models trained via deterministic reconstruction objectives. SimpleFold challenges the reliance on complex domain-specific architectures designs in protein folding, opening up an alternative design space for future progress.

Computer Vision · Classification and Understanding

Kanglin Qu, Pan Gao, Qun Dai, Yuanhao Sun

Synergistically capturing intricate local structures and global contextual dependencies has become a critical challenge in point cloud representation learning. To address this, we introduce PointLearner, a point cloud representation learning network that closely aligns with biological vision which employs an active, foveation-inspired processing strategy, thus enabling local geometric modeling and long-range dependency interactions simultaneously. Specifically, we first design a point-focused attention, which simulates foveal vision at the visual focus through a competitive normalized attention mechanism between local neighbors and spatially downsampled features. The spatially downsampled features are extracted by a pooling method based on learnable inducing points, which can flexibly adapt to the non-uniform distribution of point clouds as the number of inducing points is controlled and they interact directly with point clouds. Second, we propose a context-scan state space that mimics eye's saccade inference, which infers the overall semantic structure and spatial content in the scene through a scan path guided by the Hilbert curve for the bidirectional S6. With this focus-then-context biomimetic design, PointLearner demonstrates remarkable robustness and achieves state-of-the-art performance across multiple point cloud tasks. The code is available at https://github.com/Point-Cloud-Learning/PointLearner.

General Machine Learning · Representation Learning

Gong Zhiren, Chao Yang, Wendi Ren, Shuang Li

Humans navigate daily life by combining two modes of behavior: deliberate planning in novel situations and fast, automatic responses in familiar ones. Modeling human decision-making therefore requires capturing how people switch between these modes. We present a framework for learning human habits with rule-guided active inference, extending the view of the brain as a prediction machine that minimizes mismatches between expectations and observations, and computationally modeling of human(-like) behavior and habits. In our approach, habits emerge as symbolic rules that serve as compact, interpretable shortcuts for action. To learn these rules alongside the human models, we design a biologically inspired wake--sleep algorithm. In the wake phase, the agent engages in active inference on real trajectories: reconstructing states, updating beliefs, and harvesting candidate rules that reliably reduce free energy. In the sleep phase, the agent performs generative replay with its world model, refining parameters and consolidating or pruning rules by minimizing joint free energy. This alternating rule–model consolidation lets the agent build a reusable habit library while preserving the flexibility to plan. Experiments on basketball player movements, car-following behavior, medical diagnosis, and visual game strategy demonstrate that our framework improves predictive accuracy and efficiency compared to logic-based, deep learning, LLM-based, model-based RL, and prior active inference baselines, while producing interpretable rules that mirror human-like habits.

Applications · Everything Else

Sreyan Ghosh, Arushi Goel, Lasha Koroshinadze, Sang-gil Lee, Zhifeng Kong, Joao Santos, Ramani Duraiswami, Dinesh Manocha, Wei Ping, Mohammad Shoeybi 等

We introduce Music Flamingo, a novel large audio–language model, designed to advance music (including song) understanding in foundational audio models. While audio–language research has progressed rapidly, music remains challenging due to its dynamic, layered, and information-dense nature. Progress has been further limited by the difficulty of scaling open audio understanding models, primarily because of the scarcity of high-quality music data and annotations. As a result, prior models are restricted to producing short, high-level captions, answering only surface-level questions, and showing limited generalization across diverse musical cultures. To address these challenges, we curate MF-Skills, a large-scale dataset labeled through a multi-stage pipeline that yields rich captions and question–answer pairs covering harmony, structure, timbre, lyrics, and cultural context. We fine-tune an enhanced Audio Flamingo 3 backbone on MF-Skills and further strengthen multiple skills relevant to music understanding. To improve the model's reasoning abilities, we introduce a post-training recipe: we first cold-start with MF-Think, a novel chain-of-thought dataset grounded in music theory, followed by GRPO-based reinforcement learning with custom rewards. Music Flamingo achieves state-of-the-art results across 10+ benchmarks for music understanding and reasoning, establishing itself as a generalist and musically intelligent audio–language model. Beyond strong empirical results, Music Flamingo sets a new standard for advanced music understanding by demonstrating how models can move from surface-level recognition towards layered, human-like perception of songs. We believe this work provides both a benchmark and a foundation for the community to build the next generation of models that engage with music as meaningfully as humans do. Demo: https://musicflamingo.github.io

Reinforcement Learning · Online

Oswin So, Eric Yu, Songyuan Zhang, Matthew Cleaveland, Mitchell Black, Chuchu Fan

Recent advances in deep reinforcement learning (RL) have achieved strong results on high-dimensional control tasks, but applying RL to reachability problems raises a fundamental mismatch: reachability seeks to maximize the set of states from which a system remains safe indefinitely, while RL optimizes expected returns over a user-specified distribution. This mismatch can result in policies that perform poorly on low-probability states that are still within the safe set. A natural alternative is to frame the problem as a robust optimization over a set of initial conditions that specify the initial state, dynamics and safe set, but whether this problem has a solution depends on the feasibility of the specified set, which is unknown a priori. We propose Feasibility-Guided Exploration (FGE), a method that simultaneously identifies a subset of feasible initial conditions under which a safe policy exists, and learns a policy to solve the reachability problem over this set of initial conditions. Empirical results demonstrate that FGE learns policies with over 50% more coverage than the best existing method for challenging initial conditions across tasks in the MuJoCo simulator and the Kinetix simulator with pixel observations.

Deep Learning · Graph Neural Networks

Louis Emiel T Van Langendonck, Guillermo Bernardez, Nina Miolane, Pere Barlet-Ros

A fundamental challenge in graph learning is understanding how models generalize to new, unseen graphs. While synthetic benchmarks offer controlled settings for analysis, existing approaches are confined to single-graph, transductive settings where models train and test on the same graph structure. Addressing this gap, we introduce GraphUniverse, a framework for generating entire families of graphs to enable the first systematic evaluation of inductive generalization at scale. Our core innovation is the generation of graphs with persistent semantic communities, ensuring conceptual consistency while allowing fine-grained control over structural properties like homophily and degree distributions. This enables crucial but underexplored robustness tests, such as performance under controlled distribution shifts. Benchmarking a wide range of architectures—from GNNs to graph transformers and topological architectures—reveals that strong transductive performance is a poor predictor of inductive generalization. Furthermore, we find that robustness to distribution shift is highly sensitive not only to model architecture choice but also to the initial graph regime (e.g., high vs. low homophily). Beyond benchmarking, GraphUniverse’s flexibility and scalability can facilitate the development of robust and truly generalizable architectures. An interactive demo is available at https://graphuniverse.streamlit.app.

Computer Vision · Vision Models & Multimodal

Luozheng Qin, GONG JIA, Yuqing Sun, Tianjiao Li, Haoyu Pan, Mengping Yang, Xiaomeng Yang, Chao Qu, Zhiyu Tan, Hao Li

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning has proven effective in enhancing Large Language Models (LLMs) on complex tasks by decomposing problems into step-wise solutions. However, extending CoT to multi-modal settings remains challenging, as it requires modeling transitions of visual states alongside textual reasoning. Existing approaches often underperform due to limited capacity to model visual transitions or fragmented architectures. To overcome this limitation, we introduce Uni-CoT, a Unified Chain-of-Thought framework that captures structured visual transitions and seamlessly aligns them with textual logic, enabling coherent multimodal reasoning. To mitigate the computational and training challenges inherent to multi-modal reasoning, Uni-CoT introduces a two-level reasoning paradigm: a macro-level CoT for high-level planning and a micro-level CoT for localized subtask execution. This hierarchical design reduces computational overhead while maintaining coherence. Additionally, Uni-CoT incorporates a structured training paradigm with auxiliary tasks to stabilize optimization and improve generalization. Experiments on reasoning-driven image generation and understanding benchmarks demonstrate that Uni-CoT achieves state-of-the-art performance and remarkable generalization, underscoring its potential for complex multi-modal reasoning. Code: https://github.com/Fr0zenCrane/UniCoT.

Computer Vision · Image and Video Generation

Luigi Sigillo, Shengfeng He, Danilo Comminiello

High-resolution image synthesis remains a core challenge in generative modeling, particularly in balancing computational efficiency with the preservation of fine-grained visual detail. We present $\textit{Latent Wavelet Diffusion (LWD)}$, a lightweight training framework that significantly improves detail and texture fidelity in ultra-high-resolution (2K-4K) image synthesis. LWD introduces a novel, frequency-aware masking strategy derived from wavelet energy maps, which dynamically focuses the training process on detail-rich regions of the latent space. This is complemented by a scale-consistent VAE objective to ensure high spectral fidelity. The primary advantage of our approach is its efficiency: LWD requires no architectural modifications and adds zero additional cost during inference, making it a practical solution for scaling existing models. Across multiple strong baselines, LWD consistently improves perceptual quality and FID scores, demonstrating the power of signal-driven supervision as a principled and efficient path toward high-resolution generative modeling.

Applications · Language, Speech and Dialog

Jinchuan Tian, Sang-gil Lee, Zhifeng Kong, Sreyan Ghosh, Arushi Goel, Chao-Han Huck Yang, Wenliang Dai, Zihan Liu, Hanrong Ye, Shinji Watanabe 等

Recent advances in the audio language modeling (ALM) domain tackle audio understanding and text-to-audio generation as separate tasks. Very few studies attempt to unify these tasks -- an essential step toward advanced multimodal reasoning. This paper introduces Unified Audio Language Model (UALM), which aims to unify audio understanding, text-to-audio generation, and multimodal reasoning in a single model. To achieve this goal, we first present UALM-Gen, a text-to-audio language model that directly predicts audio tokens and is comparable to state-of-the-art diffusion-based models. We then demonstrate, using proper data blending, training recipes, and inference techniques, that our single UALM model matches the quality of state-of-the-art specialized models in audio understanding, text-to-audio generation, and text reasoning. Furthermore, we present UALM-Reason, a multimodal reasoning model that utilizes both text and audio in the intermediate thinking steps to facilitate complex generation tasks. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration in audio research of cross-modal generative reasoning, with its effectiveness confirmed by subjective evaluations.

Deep Learning · Generative Models and Autoencoders

Chia-Yu Hung, Navonil Majumder, Zhifeng Kong, Ambuj Mehrish, Amir Zadeh, Chuan Li, Rafael Valle, Bryan Catanzaro, Soujanya Poria

We introduce TangoFlux, an efficient Text-to-Audio (TTA) generative model with 515M parameters, capable of generating up to 30 seconds of 44.1kHz audio in 3.7 seconds on a A40 GPU. A key challenge in aligning TTA models lies in creating preference pairs, as TTA lacks structured mechanisms like verifiable rewards or gold-standard answers available for Large Language Models (LLMs). To address this, we propose CLAP-Ranked Preference Optimization (CRPO), a novel framework that iteratively generates and optimizes preference data to enhance TTA alignment. We show that the audio preference dataset generated using CRPO outperforms the static alternatives. With this framework, TangoFlux achieves state-of-the-art performance across both objective and subjective benchmarks. https://tangoflux.github.io/ holds the model-generated audio samples for comparison.