Jingkun Chen
Author directory2026
Evo: Autoregressive–Diffusion Large Language Models with Evolving Balance
Junde Wu | Minhao Hu | Jiayuan Zhu | Yuyuan Liu | Tianyi Zhang | Kang Li | Jingkun Chen | Jiazhen Pan | Qirong Ho | Min Xu | Yueming Jin
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Junde Wu | Minhao Hu | Jiayuan Zhu | Yuyuan Liu | Tianyi Zhang | Kang Li | Jingkun Chen | Jiazhen Pan | Qirong Ho | Min Xu | Yueming Jin
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
We introduce Evo, a duality latent trajectory model that bridges autoregressive (AR) and diffusion-based language generation within a continuous evolutionary generative framework. Rather than treating AR decoding and diffusion generation as separate paradigms, Evo reconceptualizes text generation as a latent flow: each token is associated with a vector-valued embedding that evolves over a progression variable, indicating its semantic maturity. Low values correspond to confident AR-like refinement, while high values invoke diffusion-style planning, allowing the model to adaptively balance AR and diffusion based on uncertainty. Theoretically, we show that both AR and diffusion models emerge as discretizations of a shared probability flow, and we derive Evo’s training objective from a unified variational ELBO. The model is implemented as a time-conditioned Transformer governed by a shared vector field, trained end-to-end to jointly infer latent codes and their progression times. During decoding, Evo performs efficient, semantics-aware refinement, achieving high-quality outputs without sacrificing speed. Empirically, Evo 8B achieves state-of-the-art or highly competitive results on 15 diverse benchmarks, including reasoning (GSM8K, ARC-C), code generation (HumanEval, MBPP), and general language understanding, while maintaining fast inference speed. Our results demonstrate that Evo delivers a new paradigm for LLM design with strong generation quality, robust symbolic reasoning, and decoding efficiency.
2025
Medical Graph RAG: Evidence-based Medical Large Language Model via Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Junde Wu | Jiayuan Zhu | Yunli Qi | Jingkun Chen | Min Xu | Filippo Menolascina | Yueming Jin | Vicente Grau
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Junde Wu | Jiayuan Zhu | Yunli Qi | Jingkun Chen | Min Xu | Filippo Menolascina | Yueming Jin | Vicente Grau
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
We introduce MedGraphRAG, a novel graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) framework designed to enhance LLMs in generating evidence-based medical responses, improving safety and reliability with private medical data. We introduce Triple Graph Construction and U-Retrieval to enhance GraphRAG, enabling holistic insights and evidence-based response generation for medical applications. Specifically, we connect user documents to credible medical sources and integrate Top-down Precise Retrieval with Bottom-up Response Refinement for balanced context awareness and precise indexing. Validated on 9 medical Q&A benchmarks, 2 health fact-checking datasets, and a long-form generation test set, MedGraphRAG outperforms state-of-the-art models while ensuring credible sourcing. Our code is publicly available.