arXiv:2606. 27617v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Masked Diffusion Models (MDMs) promise fast, parallel language generation, but their reverse transition factorises across token positions -- an approximation that breaks down in the few-step sampling regime where parallel generation ought to provide the greatest efficiency gains.
By Iskander Azangulov, Kianoosh Ashouritaklimi, Leo Zhang, Simon Vary, Patrick Rebeschini
arXiv:2602. 19066v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) have recently achieved strong results in text generation.
By David Li, Nikita Gushchin, Dmitry Abulkhanov, Eric Moulines, Ivan Oseledets, Maxim Panov, Alexander Korotin
arXiv:2602. 11590v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Masked diffusion models (MDMs) have emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive models, enabling parallel token generation while achieving competitive performance.
By Yair Schiff, Omer Belhasin, Roy Uziel, Guanghan Wang, Marianne Arriola, Gilad Turok, Ran Zilberstein, Michael Elad, Volodymyr Kuleshov
arXiv:2604. 26985v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Masked diffusion models (MDMs) generate discrete sequences by iterative denoising under an absorbing masking process.
By Michael Cardei, Huu Binh Ta, Ferdinando Fioretto
arXiv:2607. 24507v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing methods mainly adapt pretrained autoregressive (AR) language models to masked diffusion, whereas we directly adapt them to uniform-noise diffusion, where every token remains editable during sampling.
By Xiaoyi Jiang, Jingyuan Li, Yixuan Jiang, Wei Liu, Yi Zhu, Zuoqiang Shi, Pipi Hu
arXiv:2602. 10314v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Masked Diffusion Models (MDMs) have emerged as a promising approach for generative modeling in discrete spaces.
By Jaeyeon Kim, Jonathan Geuter, David Alvarez-Melis, Sham Kakade, Sitan Chen
arXiv:2605. 00161v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion language models (DLMs) are an attractive alternative to autoregressive models because they promise sublinear-time, parallel generation, yet practical gains remain elusive as high-quality samples still demand hundreds of refinement steps.
By Hasan Amin, Yuan Gao, Yaser Souri, Subhojit Som, Ming Yin, Rajiv Khanna, Xia Song
arXiv:2607. 06631v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video Diffusion Models (VDMs) have demonstrated superior generation quality but suffer from prohibitive computational costs.
By Yu Cheng, Siyue Yao, Zhongang Qi, Shanyan Guan, Wei Li, Fajie Yuan
arXiv:2607. 15200v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning has proven effective for improving reasoning in large language models, but extending it to Masked Diffusion Language Models (MDLMs) remains challenging due to the intractability of the log-likelihood estimation.
By Haran Raajesh, Kulin Shah, Adam Klivans, Philipp Kr\"ahenb\"uhl
arXiv:2603. 02230v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Self-correction is an effective technique for maintaining parallel sampling in discrete diffusion models with minimal performance degradation.
By Linxuan Wang, Ziyi Wang, Yikun Bai, Wei Deng, Guang Lin, Qifan Song
arXiv:2605. 26436v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Discrete masked diffusion language models such as LLaDA generate text through iterative denoising, where mask tokens are progressively replaced with predicted tokens.
By Lin Yao
arXiv:2607. 02805v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-throughput long-context generation is one of the central challenges for large language models.
By Pranshu Chaturvedi, Parth Shroff, Tarun Suresh, Hangoo Kang, Kaiyue Wen