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Deep Learning · Generative Models and Autoencoders

Hansheng Chen, Kai Zhang, Hao Tan, Leonidas Guibas, Gordon Wetzstein, Sai Bi

Few-step diffusion or flow-based generative models typically distill a velocity-predicting teacher into a student that predicts a shortcut towards denoised data. This format mismatch has led to complex distillation procedures that often suffer from a quality--diversity trade-off. To address this, we propose policy-based flow models ($\pi$-Flow). $\pi$-Flow modifies the output layer of a student flow model to predict a network-free policy at one timestep. The policy then produces dynamic flow velocities at future substeps with negligible overhead, enabling fast and accurate ODE integration without extra network evaluations. To match the policy's ODE trajectory to the teacher's, we introduce a novel imitation distillation approach, which matches the policy's velocity to the teacher's along the policy's trajectory using a standard $\ell_2$ flow matching loss. By simply mimicking the teacher's behavior, $\pi$-Flow enables stable and scalable training and avoids the quality--diversity trade-off. On ImageNet $256\times 256$, it attains a 1-NFE FID of 2.85, outperforming previous 1-NFE models of the same DiT architecture. On FLUX.1-12B and Qwen-Image-20B at 4 NFEs, $\pi$-Flow achieves substantially better diversity than state-of-the-art DMD models, while maintaining teacher-level quality.

Deep Learning · Generative Models and Autoencoders

Ziyi Xia, Kun Luo, Hongjin Qian, Siqi Bao, Zheng Liu

Deep research becomes increasingly important as people seek to solve complex problems that require gathering and synthesizing information from diverse sources. A key capability in this process is agentic search, where an LLM-agent iteratively retrieves relevant information across multiple sources while performing multi-step reasoning. However, developing effective agentic search systems is challenging due to the lack of high-quality training data that reflects the complexity of real-world research tasks. To address this gap, we introduce InfoSeek, a novel data synthesis framework that conceptualizes agentic search as a Hierarchical Constraint Satisfaction Problem (HCSP), where solving a task requires satisfying layered constraints across multiple levels of sub-problems. InfoSeek employs a Diffusion–Retrospection process: in the diffusion phase, the framework expands outward from a seed webpage, generating constraints that connect to neighboring pages and forming an exploration tree; in the retrospection phase, a subtree is sampled and backtracking constraints are introduced, which are then blurred and integrated into an HCSP instance. As a generic framework, InfoSeek can be easily extended to other domains beyond web, facilitating ad-hoc optimization of deep research. To our knowledge, InfoSeek is the first publicly released framework in this area, complete with open-source code and well-curated datasets. Extensive experiments on diverse information-seeking benchmarks show that training on InfoSeek-generated data substantially improves agentic search performance, delivering significantly larger gains than traditional datasets across diverse model backends and training strategies, thereby validating the effectiveness of our approach.

Deep Learning · Generative Models and Autoencoders

Changhao Peng, Yuqi Ye, Shuangjun Du, Wenxu Gao, Wei Gao

Denoising-based generative models have been significantly advanced by representation-alignment (REPA) loss, which leverages pre-trained visual encoders to guide intermediate network features. However, REPA's reliance on external visual encoders introduces two critical challenges: potential \textit{distribution mismatches} between the encoder's training data and the generation target, and the high \textit{computational costs} of pre-training. Inspired by the observation that REPA primarily aids early layers in capturing robust semantics, we propose an unsupervised alternative that avoids external visual encoder and the assumption of consistent data distribution. We introduce \textit{\textbf{DU}al-\textbf{P}ath condition \textbf{A}lignment} (\textbf{DUPA}), a novel self-alignment framework, which independently noises an image multiple times and processes these noisy latents through decoupled diffusion transformer, then aligns the derived conditions\textemdash low-frequency semantic features extracted from each path. Experiments demonstrate that DUPA achieves FID$=$1.46 on ImageNet 256$\times$256 with only 400 training epochs, outperforming all methods that do not rely on external supervision. DUPA is also model-agnostic and can be readily applied to any denoising-based generative model, showcasing its excellent scalability and generalizability. Code is available at https://github.com/PCH-gg/DUPA, https://openi.pcl.ac.cn/OpenAIDriving/DUPA.

Deep Learning · Generative Models and Autoencoders

Sebastian Bordt, Martin Pawelczyk

Recent work has demonstrated that controlled pretraining experiments are a powerful tool for studying the relationship between training data and large language model (LLM) behavior. However, the computational cost of pretraining presents a significant constraint. To overcome this constraint, we propose a new approach where multiple experiments are conducted simultaneously during a *single* training run. We validate our approach by performing ten experiments while training on 210B tokens, with models of up to 2.7B parameters. Although models are trained only once, we can replicate the results of multiple previous works on data contamination, poisoning, and memorization. We also conduct novel investigations into knowledge acquisition, mathematical reasoning, and watermarking. For example, we dynamically update the training data until a model acquires a particular piece of knowledge. Remarkably, the influence of the experiments on the model's training dynamics and overall performance is minimal. However, interactions between experiments may act as a confounder in our approach. We propose continual pretraining dependence testing (CPDT), a novel technique to test for interactions with continual pretraining experiments, finding them to be negligible in our setup. Overall, our results suggest that performing multiple pretraining experiments within a single training run can enable rigorous scientific experimentation with large models on a compute budget.

Deep Learning · Generative Models and Autoencoders

Andrea Testa, Søren Hauberg, Tamim Asfour, Leonel Rozo

The Schrödinger Bridge provides a principled framework for modeling stochastic processes between distributions; however, existing methods are limited by energy-conservation assumptions, which constrains the bridge's shape preventing it from model varying-energy phenomena. To overcome this, we introduce the non-conservative generalized Schrödinger bridge (NCGSB), a novel, energy-varying reformulation based on contact Hamiltonian mechanics. By allowing energy to change over time, the NCGSB provides a broader class of real-world stochastic processes, capturing richer and more faithful intermediate dynamics. By parameterizing the Wasserstein manifold, we lift the bridge problem to a tractable geodesic computation in a finite-dimensional space. Unlike computationally expensive iterative solutions, our contact Wasserstein geodesic (CWG) is naturally implemented via a ResNet architecture and relies on a non-iterative solver with near-linear complexity. Furthermore, CWG supports guided generation by modulating a task-specific distance metric. We validate our framework on tasks including manifold navigation, molecular dynamics predictions, and image generation, demonstrating its practical benefits and versatility.

Deep Learning · Generative Models and Autoencoders

Yidan Xu, Yixin Wang, XuanLong Nguyen

Flow matching is a powerful approach for high-fidelity density estimation, but it often fails to capture the latent structure of complex data. Probabilistic models like variational autoencoders (VAEs), on the other hand, learn structured representations but underperform in sample quality. We propose Structured Flow Autoencoders (SFA), a family of probabilistic models that augments graphical models with conditional continuous normalizing flow (CNF) likelihoods, enabling flow-matching-based structured representation learning. At the core of SFA is a novel flow matching objective that explicitly accounts for latent variables, allowing joint learning of the CNF likelihood and posterior. SFA applies broadly to graphical models with continuous and mixture latents, as well as latent dynamical systems. Empirical studies across image, video, and RNA-seq data show that SFA consistently outperforms VAEs and their structured extensions in generation quality, representation utility, and scalability to large datasets. Compared to generative models like latent flow matching (LatentFM), SFA also produces more diverse samples, suggesting better coverage of the data distribution.

Deep Learning · Generative Models and Autoencoders

Ye He, Kevin Rojas, Molei Tao

Masked discrete diffusion models have been gaining popularity recently, and classifier-free guidance, just like its continuous counterpart, has been proposed to enable efficacious conditional generation by discrete diffusion. To quantify the precise effect of discrete guidance, this article considers masked discrete diffusion with arbitrary data distribution in low dimension, so that the distribution that guided masked discrete diffusion samples from, as well as the sampling dynamics, can be analytically and exactly quantified and interpreted. When the full data distribution is a mixture over classes and the goal is to sample from a specific class, guidance amplifies class-specific regions while suppresses regions shared with other classes. This effect depends on the guidance strength $w$ and induces distinct covariance structures in the sampled distribution. Notably, we observe quantitatively different behaviors in $1$D and $2$D. We also show that for large $w$, the decay rate of the total variation ($\text{TV}$) along the reverse dynamics is double-exponential in $w$ for both $1$D and $2$D. These findings highlight the role of guidance, not just in shaping the output distribution, but also in controlling the dynamics of the sampling trajectory. Our theoretical analysis is supported by experiments that illustrate the geometric effects of guidance and its impact on convergence.

Deep Learning · Generative Models and Autoencoders

Boshi Wang, Huan Sun

Despite their impressive capabilities, LLMs exhibit a basic generalization failure known as the *Reversal Curse*, where they struggle to learn reversible factual associations. Understanding why this occurs could help identify weaknesses in current models and advance their generalization and robustness. In this paper, we conjecture that the Reversal Curse in LLMs is a manifestation of the long-standing *binding problem* in cognitive science, neuroscience and AI. Specifically, we hypothesize two primary causes of the Reversal Curse stemming from transformers' limitations in conceptual binding: the *inconsistency* and *entanglements* of concept representations. We perform a series of experiments that support these conjectures. Our exploration leads to a model design based on JEPA (Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture) that for the first time breaks the Reversal Curse without side-stepping it with specialized data augmentation or non-causal masking, and moreover, generalization could be further improved by incorporating special memory layers that support disentangled concept representations. Our research opens up the broader fundamental challenge of designing models capable of learning systematic conceptual binding with less human scaffolding.

General Machine Learning · Representation Learning

Yuhang Liu, Dong Gong, Yichao Cai, Erdun Gao, Zhen Zhang, Biwei Huang, Mingming Gong, Anton Hengel, Javen Qinfeng Shi

Recent empirical evidence shows that LLM representations encode human-interpretable concepts. Nevertheless, the mechanisms by which these representations emerge remain largely unexplored. To shed further light on this, we introduce a novel generative model that generates tokens on the basis of such concepts formulated as latent discrete variables. Under mild conditions, even when the mapping from the latent space to the observed space is non-invertible, we establish rigorous identifiability result: the representations learned by LLMs through next-token prediction can be approximately modeled as the logarithm of the posterior probabilities of these latent discrete concepts given input context, up to an invertible linear transformation. This theoretical finding: 1) provides evidence that LLMs capture essential underlying generative factors, 2) offers a unified and principled perspective for understanding the linear representation hypothesis, and 3) motivates a theoretically grounded approach for evaluating sparse autoencoders. Empirically, we validate our theoretical results through evaluations on both simulation data and the Pythia, Llama, and DeepSeek model families.

Deep Learning · Generative Models and Autoencoders

Byungjun Kim, Soobin Um, Jong Chul YE

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have demonstrated impressive performance in generating high-fidelity images, largely enabled by text-guided inference. However, this advantage often comes with a critical drawback: limited diversity, as outputs tend to collapse into similar modes under strong text guidance. Existing approaches typically optimize intermediate latents or text conditions during inference, but these methods deliver only modest gains or remain sensitive to hyperparameter tuning. In this work, we introduce Contrastive Noise Optimization, a simple yet effective method that addresses the diversity issue from a distinct perspective. Unlike prior techniques that adapt intermediate latents, our approach shapes the initial noise to promote diverse outputs. Specifically, we develop a contrastive loss defined in the Tweedie data space and optimize a batch of noise latents. Our contrastive optimization repels instances within the batch to maximize diversity while keeping them anchored to a reference sample to preserve fidelity. We further provide theoretical insights into the mechanism of this preprocessing to substantiate its effectiveness. Extensive experiments across multiple T2I backbones demonstrate that our approach achieves a superior quality-diversity Pareto frontier while remaining robust to hyperparameter choices.

Ning Liu, Lu Zhang, Tian Gao, Yue Yu

Neural operators (NOs) excel at learning mappings between function spaces, serving as efficient forward solution approximators for PDE-governed systems. However, as black-box solvers, they offer limited insight into the underlying physical mechanism, due to the lack of interpretable representations of the physical parameters that drive the system. To tackle this challenge, we propose a new paradigm for learning disentangled representations from NO parameters, thereby effectively solving an inverse problem. Specifically, we introduce DisentangO, a novel hyper-neural operator architecture designed to unveil and disentangle latent physical factors of variation embedded within the black-box neural operator parameters. At the core of DisentangO is a multi-task NO architecture that distills the varying parameters of the governing PDE through a task-wise adaptive layer, alongside a variational autoencoder that disentangles these variations into identifiable latent factors. By learning these disentangled representations, DisentangO not only enhances physical interpretability but also enables more robust generalization across diverse systems. Empirical evaluations across supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised learning contexts show that DisentangO effectively extracts meaningful and interpretable latent features, bridging the gap between predictive performance and physical understanding in neural operator frameworks. Our code and data accompanying this paper are available at \url{https://github.com/ningliu-iga/DisentangO}.

Haoqiang Kang, Yizhe Zhang, Nikki Kuang, Nicklas Majamaki, Navdeep Jaitly, Yian Ma, Lianhui Qin

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate their reasoning ability through chain-of-thought (CoT) generation. However, LLM's autoregressive decoding may limit the ability to revisit and refine earlier tokens in a holistic manner, which can also lead to inefficient exploration for diverse solutions. In this paper, we propose LaDiR (Lalent Diffusion Reasoner), a novel reasoning framework that unifies the expressiveness of continuous latent representation with the iterative refinement capabilities of latent diffusion models for an existing LLM. We first construct a structured latent reasoning space using a Variational Autoencoder (VAE) that encodes text reasoning steps into blocks of thought tokens, preserving semantic information and interpretability while offering compact but expressive representations. Subsequently, we utilize a latent diffusion model that learns to denoise a block of latent thought tokens with a blockwise bidirectional attention mask, enabling longer horizon and iterative refinement with adaptive test-time compute. This design, combined with explicit diversity guidance during diffusion inference, enables the generation of multiple diverse reasoning trajectories that explore distinct regions of the latent space, rather than producing repetitive solutions as often occurs in standard autoregressive sampling. We conduct evaluations on a suite of mathematical reasoning and planning benchmarks. Empirical results show that LaDiR consistently improves accuracy, diversity, and interpretability over existing autoregressive, diffusion-based, and latent reasoning methods, revealing a new paradigm for text reasoning with latent diffusion.

Reinforcement Learning · Multi-agent

Wei Du, Benyu Wu, YUQING SUN, Wei Guo, yuntao du, Zhongmin Yan, Guoxian Yu, Lizhen Cui

Effective communication is crucial for multi-agent cooperation in partially observable environments. However, a fundamental trilemma exists among task performance, communication efficiency, and human interpretability. To resolve this, we propose a multi-agent communication framework via $\textbf{G}$rounding $\textbf{L}$anguage and $\textbf{C}$ontrastive learning (GLC) to learns efficient and interpretable communication protocols. Specifically, GLC employs an autoencoder to learn discretized and compressed communication symbols, ensuring high communication efficiency. These symbols are then semantically aligned with human concepts using data generated by a Large Language Model (LLM), making them human-interpretable. Furthermore, a contrastive learning objective is introduced to ensure consistency and mutual intelligibility among all agents, thereby securing high task utility. GLC dynamically balances these objectives by the Information Bottleneck principle. Extensive experiments show that GLC outperforms state-of-the-art methods across multiple benchmarks, delivering superior task performance, higher communication efficiency, and enhanced human interpretability.

Reinforcement Learning · Batch/Offline

Chenxing Lin, Xinhui Gao, Haipeng Zhang, Xinran Li, Haitao Wang, Songzhu Mei, Chenglu Wen, Weiquan Liu, Siqi Shen, Cheng Wang

Generative models have gained significant traction in offline reinforcement learning (RL) due to their ability to model complex trajectory distributions. However, existing generation-based approaches still struggle with long-horizon tasks characterized by sparse rewards. Some hierarchical generation methods have been developed to mitigate this issue by decomposing the original problem into shorter-horizon subproblems using one policy and generating detailed actions with another. While effective, these methods often overlook the multi-scale temporal structure inherent in trajectories, resulting in suboptimal performance. To overcome these limitations, we propose MAGE, a Multi-scale Autoregressive GEneration-based offline RL method. MAGE incorporates a condition-guided multi-scale autoencoder to learn hierarchical trajectory representations, along with a multi-scale transformer that autoregressively generates trajectory representations from coarse to fine temporal scales. MAGE effectively captures temporal dependencies of trajectories at multiple resolutions. Additionally, a condition-guided decoder is employed to exert precise control over short-term behaviors. Extensive experiments on five offline RL benchmarks against fifteen baseline algorithms show that MAGE successfully integrates multi-scale trajectory modeling with conditional guidance, generating coherent and controllable trajectories in long-horizon sparse-reward settings. The source code is available at https://github.com/xmu-rl-3dv/MAGE.

Computer Vision · Image and Video Generation

Hao Chen, Rui Yin, Yifan Chen, Qi Chen, Chao Li

Understanding disease progression is a central clinical challenge with direct implications for early diagnosis and personalized treatment. While recent generative approaches have attempted to model progression, key mismatches remain: disease dynamics are inherently continuous and monotonic, yet latent representations are often scattered, lacking semantic structure, and diffusion-based models disrupt continuity through the random denoising process. In this work, we propose treating disease dynamics as a velocity field and leveraging Flow Matching (FM) to align the temporal evolution of patient data. Unlike prior methods, our approach captures the intrinsic dynamics of disease, making progression more interpretable. However, a key challenge remains: in latent space, Autoencoders (AEs) do not guarantee alignment across patients or correlation with clinical severity (e.g., age and disease conditions). To address this, we propose learning patient-specific latent alignment, which enforces patient trajectories to lie along a specific axis, with magnitudes increasing monotonically with disease severity. This leads to a consistent and semantically meaningful latent space. Together, we present ∆-LFM, a framework for modeling patient-specific latent progression with flow matching. Across three longitudinal MRI benchmarks, ∆-LFM demonstrates strong empirical performance and, more importantly, establishes a new framework for interpreting and visualizing disease dynamics.

Computer Vision · Image and Video Generation

Minglei Shi, Haolin Wang, Wenzhao Zheng, Ziyang Yuan, Xiaoshi Wu, Xintao WANG, Pengfei Wan, Jie Zhou, Jiwen Lu

Recent progress in diffusion-based visual generation has largely relied on latent diffusion models with Variational Autoencoders (VAEs). While effective for high-fidelity synthesis, this VAE+Diffusion paradigm still suffers from limited training and inference efficiency, along with poor transferability to broader vision tasks. These issues stem from a key limitation of VAE latent spaces: the lack of clear semantic separation and strong discriminative structure. Our analysis confirms that these properties are not only crucial for perception and understanding tasks, but also equally essential for the stable and efficient training of latent diffusion models. Motivated by this insight, we introduce **SVG**—a novel latent diffusion model without variational autoencoders, which unleashes **S**elf-supervised representations for **V**isual **G**eneration. SVG constructs a feature space with clear semantic discriminability by leveraging frozen DINO features, while a lightweight residual branch captures fine-grained details for high-fidelity reconstruction. Diffusion models are trained directly on this semantically structured latent space to facilitate more efficient learning. As a result, SVG enables accelerated diffusion training, supports few-step sampling, and improves generative quality. Experimental results further show that SVG preserves the semantic and discriminative capabilities of the underlying self-supervised representations, providing a principled pathway toward task-general, high-quality visual representations.

Deep Learning · Generative Models and Autoencoders

Zijian Feng, Tianjiao Li, Zixiao Zhu, Hanzhang Zhou, Junlang Qian, Li Zhang, Chua Deryl, Lee Mak, Gee Ng, Kezhi Mao

Activation steering has emerged as a cost-effective paradigm for modifying large language model (LLM) behaviors. Existing methods typically intervene at the block level, steering the bundled activations of selected attention heads, feedforward networks, or residual streams. However, we reveal that block-level activations are inherently heterogeneous, entangling beneficial, irrelevant, and harmful features, thereby rendering block-level steering coarse, inefficient, and intrusive. To investigate the root cause, we decompose block activations into fine-grained atomic unit (AU)–level activations, where each AU-level activation corresponds to a single dimension of the block activation, and each AU denotes a slice of the block weight matrix. Steering an AU-level activation is thus equivalent to steering its associated AU. Our theoretical and empirical analysis show that heterogeneity arises because different AUs or dimensions control distinct token distributions in LLM outputs. Hence, block-level steering inevitably moves helpful and harmful token directions together, which reduces efficiency. Restricting intervention to beneficial AUs yields more precise and effective steering. Building on this insight, we propose AUSteer, a simple and efficient method that operates at a finer granularity of the AU level. AUSteer first identifies discriminative AUs globally by computing activation momenta on contrastive samples. It then assigns adaptive steering strengths tailored to diverse inputs and selected AU activations. Comprehensive experiments on multiple LLMs and tasks show that AUSteer consistently surpasses advanced baselines while steering considerably fewer activations, demonstrating that steering less achieves more.

Deep Learning · Generative Models and Autoencoders

WENBO WU, Qingyi Si, Xiurui Pan, Ye Wang, Jie Zhang

While Key-Value (KV) cache succeeds in reducing redundant computations in auto-regressive models, it introduces significant memory overhead, limiting its practical deployment in long-sequence scenarios. Existing KV retrieval methods attempt to mitigate this by dynamically retaining only a subset of KV entries on the GPU. However, they still suffer from notable efficiency and accuracy bottlenecks due to per-token retrieval and coarse-grained page-level KV management strategy, especially in long-output reasoning scenarios. With the emergence of large reasoning models, efficiently handling such scenarios has become increasingly important. To address this issue, we present two key observations: (1) critical KVs exhibit strong temporal locality during decoding, and (2) these KVs exhibit distinct distribution patterns across the input prompt and the generated output. Building on these observations, we propose \emph{LouisKV}, an efficient KV cache retrieval framework designed for various long-sequence scenarios. Specifically, LouisKV introduces a semantic-aware retrieval strategy that leverages temporal locality to trigger retrieval only at semantic boundaries, drastically reducing computation and data transfer overhead. LouisKV also designs a decoupled, fine-grained management scheme that tailors differentiated strategies for input and output sequences to create retrieval units that better match the model's attention patterns, thereby enabling the precise identification of critical KVs. Furthermore, to boost system efficiency, LouisKV incorporates several kernel-level optimizations, including custom Triton and CUDA kernels to accelerate the KV clustering and retrieval. Evaluation results show that LouisKV achieves up to 4.7$\times$ speedup over state-of-the-art KV retrieval methods while maintaining near-lossless accuracy across diverse long-sequence tasks, including long-input short-output, short-input long-output, and long-input long-output scenarios.

Deep Learning · Generative Models and Autoencoders

Seonghwan Choi, Beomseok Kang, Dongwon Jo, jae-joon kim

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in long-context tasks such as reasoning, code generation, and multi-turn dialogue. However, inference over extended contexts is bottlenecked by the Key-Value (KV) cache, whose memory footprint grows linearly with sequence length and dominates latency at each decoding step. While recent KV cache compression methods identify and load important few tokens, they focus predominantly on input contexts and fail to address the cumulative attention errors that arise during long decoding. In this paper, we introduce RetroAttention, a novel KV cache update technique that retrospectively revises past attention outputs using newly arrived KV entries from subsequent decoding steps. By maintaining a lightweight output cache, RetroAttention enables past queries to be efficiently supplemented with more contexts, while incurring minimal latency overhead. This breaks the fixed-attention-output paradigm and allows continual correction of prior approximations. Extensive experiments on long-generation benchmarks show that RetroAttention consistently outperforms state-of-the-art (SOTA) KV compression methods, increasing effective KV exposure by up to 1.6$\times$ and accuracy by up to 21.9\%. We provide anonymized code in the supplementary material.

Deep Learning · Generative Models and Autoencoders

Boao Kong, Junzhu Liang, Yuxi Liu, Renjia Deng, Kun Yuan

Low-rank architectures have become increasingly important for efficient large language model (LLM) pre-training, providing substantial reductions in both parameter complexity and memory/computational demands. Despite these advantages, current low-rank methods face three critical shortcomings: (1) compromised model performance, (2) considerable computational overhead, and (3) limited activation memory savings. To address these limitations, we propose **C**ross-layer Low-**R**ank residual **Net**work (**CR-Net**), an innovative parameter-efficient framework inspired by our discovery that inter-layer activation residuals possess low-rank properties. CR-Net implements this insight through a dual-path architecture that efficiently reconstructs layer activations by combining previous-layer outputs with their low-rank differences, thereby maintaining high-rank information with minimal parameters. We further develop a specialized activation recomputation strategy tailored for CR-Net that dramatically reduces memory requirements. Extensive pre-training experiments across model scales from 60M to 7B parameters demonstrate that CR-Net consistently outperforms state-of-the-art low-rank frameworks while requiring fewer computational resources and less memory.