HCFeb 20Code
EvoDiagram: Agentic Editable Diagram Creation via Design Expertise EvolutionTianfu Wang, Leilei Ding, Ziyang Tao et al.
High-fidelity diagram creation requires the complex orchestration of semantic topology, visual styling, and spatial layout, posing a significant challenge for automated systems. Existing methods also suffer from a representation gap: pixel-based models often lack precise control, while code-based synthesis limits intuitive flexibility. To bridge this gap, we introduce EvoDiagram, an agentic framework that generates object-level editable diagrams via an intermediate canvas schema. EvoDiagram employs a coordinated multi-agent system to decouple semantic intent from rendering logic, resolving conflicts across heterogeneous design layers. Additionally, we propose a design knowledge evolution mechanism that distills execution traces into a hierarchical memory of domain guidelines, enabling agents to retrieve context-aware expertise adaptively. We further release CanvasBench, a benchmark consisting of both data and metrics for canvas-based diagramming. Extensive experiments demonstrate that EvoDiagram exhibits excellent performance and balance against baselines in generating editable, structurally consistent, and aesthetically coherent diagrams. Our code is available at https://github.com/AuraX-AI/EvoDiagram.
79.1DCMay 6
GRACE-MoE: Grouping and Replication with Locality-Aware Routing for Efficient Distributed MoE InferenceYu Han, Lehan Pan, Jie Peng et al.
Sparse Mixture of Experts (SMoE) enables scalable parameter growth in large language models (LLMs) by selectively activating a subset of experts, and its large parameter count necessitates distributed deployment for inference. However, distributed inference faces a critical dilemma: although communication overhead constitutes the primary bottleneck, reducing it often exacerbates computational load imbalance, leading to resource waste. In this paper, we present GRACE-MoE, which stands for Grouping and Replication with Locality-Aware Routing for SMoE inference. GRACE-MoE is a lossless co-optimization framework that integrates expert grouping to reduce communication and dynamic replication to correct load skew, together with locality-aware routing to resolve replica selection. To underpin this coordinated optimization in multi-node settings, GRACE-MoE adopts a hierarchical sparse communication design that reduces cross-node traffic while implicitly aligning execution across nodes, thereby mitigating synchronization overhead. Experiments on diverse models and multi-node, multi-GPU environments demonstrate that GRACE-MoE efficiently reduces end-to-end inference latency, achieving up to 4.66x speedup over existing systems, and the code will be released upon acceptance.
LGJan 9
Breaking Model Lock-in: Cost-Efficient Zero-Shot LLM Routing via a Universal Latent SpaceCheng Yan, Wuyang Zhang, Zhiyuan Ning et al.
The rapid proliferation of Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to a fragmented and inefficient ecosystem, a state of ``model lock-in'' where seamlessly integrating novel models remains a significant bottleneck. Current routing frameworks require exhaustive, costly retraining, hindering scalability and adaptability. We introduce ZeroRouter, a new paradigm for LLM routing that breaks this lock-in. Our approach is founded on a universal latent space, a model-agnostic representation of query difficulty that fundamentally decouples the characterization of a query from the profiling of a model. This allows for zero-shot onboarding of new models without full-scale retraining. ZeroRouter features a context-aware predictor that maps queries to this universal space and a dual-mode optimizer that balances accuracy, cost, and latency. Our framework consistently outperforms all baselines, delivering higher accuracy at lower cost and latency.
35.2CLMay 1
Making Every Verified Token Count: Adaptive Verification for MoE Speculative DecodingLehan Pan, Ziyang Tao, Ruoyu Pang et al.
Tree-based speculative decoding accelerates autoregressive generation by verifying multiple draft candidates in parallel, but this advantage weakens for sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models. As the draft tree grows, different branches activate different experts, expanding the union of activated experts and substantially increasing target-side verification cost. We propose EVICT, a training-free, hyperparameter-free, and lossless adaptive verification method for MoE speculative decoding. EVICT makes every verified token count by truncating the draft tree before target verification and retaining only the cost-effective prefix. It leverages fine-grained drafter signals to estimate candidate benefit, combines them with offline-profiled verification cost, and remains highly compatible with the high-performance graph-based serving framework SGLang. Extensive experiments on diverse MoE backbones and benchmarks show that EVICT achieves up to 2.35x speedup over autoregressive decoding and an average 1.21x speedup over the state-of-the-art baseline EAGLE-3, while significantly reducing unnecessary expert activations during verification.
ROAug 13, 2021
Reinforcement Learning for Robot Navigation with Adaptive Forward Simulation Time (AFST) in a Semi-Markov ModelYu'an Chen, Ruosong Ye, Ziyang Tao et al.
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithms have proven effective in robot navigation, especially in unknown environments, by directly mapping perception inputs into robot control commands. However, most existing methods ignore the local minimum problem in navigation and thereby cannot handle complex unknown environments. In this paper, we propose the first DRL-based navigation method modeled by a semi-Markov decision process (SMDP) with continuous action space, named Adaptive Forward Simulation Time (AFST), to overcome this problem. Specifically, we reduce the dimensions of the action space and improve the distributed proximal policy optimization (DPPO) algorithm for the specified SMDP problem by modifying its GAE to better estimate the policy gradient in SMDPs. Experiments in various unknown environments demonstrate the effectiveness of AFST.