arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 25
Improved Large Language Diffusion Models
arXiv:2606. 25331v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern large language models are predominantly trained with autoregressive factorization and causal attention.
How to Guide Your Language Flow
The paper introduces probe guidance, a technique that leverages frozen internal states of a diffusion model to generate a guidance signal without requiring an extra forward pass during inference. This method improves continuous diffusion language models, achieving state‑of‑the‑art results on unconditional generation and enhancing performance on multiple‑choice question answering for a 1.7B model. The authors also use probes to analyze autoguidance, revealing that the weak model must originate from a low‑entropy training region to align dynamics with the strong model.
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arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4
Just on Time: Token-Level Early Stopping for Diffusion Language Models
arXiv:2602. 11133v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion language models generate text through iterative refinement, a process that is often computationally inefficient because many tokens reach stability long before the final denoising step.
arXiv AI
Jun 19
Diffusion Language Models: An Experimental Analysis
arXiv:2606. 19475v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized language modeling through autoregressive generation, enabling strong performance across a wide range of tasks.
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 15
Who Should Lead Decoding Now? Tracking Reliable Trajectories for Ensembling Masked Diffusion Language Models
Masked Diffusion Language Models (MDLMs) have emerged as a distinct paradigm for sequence generation. As MDLMs become diverse in capabilities and knowledge coverage, an important question is how to combine their knowledge.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 11
Teaching Diffusion to Speculate Left-to-Right
arXiv:2606. 11552v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) achieve remarkable performance across a wide range of tasks, but their autoregressive decoding process incurs substantial inference costs due to inherently sequential token generation.
arXiv AI
1d ago
Less Uniform Discrete Diffusion is More Powerful and Scalable
The paper introduces Less Uniform Diffusion (LUDI), a framework that improves uniform diffusion language models by using a less uniform loss and per-token time embeddings to guide reverse transitions and enable confidence-based few-step sampling. Experiments demonstrate that LUDI provides cleaner supervision, enhances few-step generation, and scales to a 7B model (LUDI-7B) that achieves a 3-token-per-step speedup over autoregressive decoding while matching masked diffusion baselines. The work suggests that UDLMs still have untapped potential for complex generation tasks.
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 10
Teaching Diffusion to Speculate Left-to-Right
Large language models (LLMs) achieve remarkable performance across a wide range of tasks, but their autoregressive decoding process incurs substantial inference costs due to inherently sequential token generation. Speculative decoding addresses this bottleneck by employing a lightweight draft model to propose multiple future tokens that are subsequently verified in parallel by a larger target model.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5
Self-Augmenting Retrieval for Diffusion Language Models
arXiv:2606. 06474v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Discrete diffusion language models generate text by iteratively denoising an entire response in parallel.
arXiv AI
1d ago
On Trajectory-Aware Training for Masked Diffusion Language Models
arXiv:2609.37974v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Masked diffusion models (MDMs) generate text by unmasking several tokens per step, but they are trained and sampled under different conditions. The m...
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5
A Survey on Diffusion Language Models
arXiv:2508. 10875v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) are rapidly emerging as a powerful and promising alternative to the dominant autoregressive (AR) paradigm.
arXiv AI
Jun 3
Plan, Verify and Fill: A Structured Parallel Decoding Approach for Diffusion Language Models
arXiv:2601. 12247v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) present a promising non-sequential paradigm for text generation, distinct from standard autoregressive (AR) approaches.
arXiv Machine Learning
1d ago
FastGuide: Accelerating Reward Guidance for Diffusion Large Language Models
arXiv:2609.36202v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Gradient-based reward guidance provides a flexible way to use downstream reward models to control masked diffusion language models at inference time....