Yuji Ren | 任玉矶

Master's Student

School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Portrait of Yuji Ren

Short Bio

I am a first-year master's student at the School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, supervised by Prof. Zhijie Deng. Before SJTU, I received my B.Eng. degree in Computer Science (Honors Program) from Teli College, Beijing Institute of Technology. My research interests lie in efficient multimodal generation. I am also a research intern at the Deep Learning Lab, Ant Research Institute, where I focus on diffusion language model pretraining and efficient generation.

Publications

Overview of the CForce method

CForce: Boosting Parallel Decoding for dLLMs via Consistency Forcing

Yuji Ren, Chenkai Xu, Zhuocheng Gong, Jianguo Li, Zhijie Deng

EMNLP 2026 Main

Paper / Code

CForce aligns early low-context predictions with later self-rollout stages to improve parallel decoding for diffusion language models.

Overview of the LLaDA2.1 training and inference framework

LLaDA2.1: Speeding Up Text Diffusion via Token Editing

LLaDA2.1 Team, including Yuji Ren

arXiv preprint · 2026

Paper

Contributed to the pre-training infrastructure for diffusion language models.

Honors