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CORA-Diff: Confidence-Oriented Residual Acceptance for Efficient Diffusion Language Model Inference

arXiv:2608. 11235v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion language models (DLMs) update many tokens in parallel, yet practical decoders often use a fixed denoising horizon.

arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 23

PACE-dLLM: Elastic Block Decoding via Confidence Cliff Estimation for Diffusion Language Models

The paper introduces PACE-dLLM, an acceleration method for diffusion language models (dLLMs) that uses the model’s own per‑step confidence to estimate a ‘confidence cliff’ and determine the optimal look‑ahead horizon for block decoding. By fitting this cliff in closed form at each step, PACE-dLLM sets the horizon to its saturation point and applies an independent confidence threshold for token commitment, thereby avoiding the trade‑offs inherent in fixed‑size block decoding. Experiments on reasoning and code benchmarks show that PACE-dLLM achieves the best average accuracy on open‑source dLLM backbones while delivering significant wall‑clock speedups—up to 5.23× on LLaDA and 3.06× on Dream—improving the quality‑throughput Pareto frontier.

By Xiaocheng Lu, Shuhan Guo, Ziyue Ma, Jie Zhang, Jian Liu, Jingcai Guo, Haoxuan Che, Song Guo
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 25

ELF-REG: Scaling Continuous Diffusion Language Models to Reasoning Tasks

The paper introduces ELF-REG, a scaling of continuous diffusion language models (dLMs) for reasoning tasks. By aligning representations and using a frozen autoregressive teacher to supervise intermediate denoiser features, ELF-REG achieves higher pass@1 rates on GSM8K, MATH-500, HumanEval, and MBPP compared to prior dLMs. The method also enables strong low‑NFE performance through early‑stop decoding of intermediate predictions.

By Zeyu Michael Li, William Xingxu Chen, Bingshuo Qian, Jiayin Liu, Xiang Cheng
arXiv AI
Jun 3

$R^2$-dLLM: Accelerating Diffusion Large Language Models via Spatio-Temporal Redundancy Reduction

arXiv:2604. 18995v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) have emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive generation by enabling parallel token prediction.

By Zhenbang Du, Kejing Xia, Xinrui Zhong, Yonggan Fu, Nicolai Oswald, Binfei Ji, Brucek Khailany, Pavlo Molchanov, Yingyan Lin
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 20

FlowBlock: Wavefront-Parallel Decoding for Self-Correcting Diffusion Language Models

Block-wise diffusion large language models (dLLMs) decode sequentially at the block level, enabling effective KV-cache reuse across blocks but making inter-block decoding strictly serial. Prior work has attempted to unlock inter-block parallelism through post-training methods, but achieves only modest speedups and often degrades accuracy.

arXiv AI
Jun 2

SimSD: Simple Speculative Decoding in Diffusion Language Models

arXiv:2606. 02544v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) have recently emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive (AR) LLMs, offering faster inference through parallel or blockwise decoding.

By Junxia Cui, Haotian Ye, Runchu Tian, Hongcan Guo, Jinya Jiang, Haoru Li, Chaojie Ren, Yiming Huang, Kaijie Zhu, Zhongkai Yu, Kun Zhou, Jingbo Shang