arXiv:2608.21019v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Quantization is widely used to deploy large language models, but its effect on uncertainty behavior, such as confidence, margins, and abstention, is...
By Zhen Yang, Sizai Hou, Kaiwen Zheng, Yaofang Liu, Liang He, Yixuan Chen, Kangning Cui
arXiv:2602. 15327v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Machine learning model performance improvements tend to arise from competition and application.
By Hanlin Zhang, Jikai Jin, Vasilis Syrgkanis, Sham Kakade
arXiv:2607. 27386v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) offer a compelling alternative to autoregressive (AR) generation by enabling bidirectional context and iterative refinement.
By Saurabh Yadav, Badri Narayana Patro, Vijay Srinivas Agneeswaran
arXiv:2606. 27474v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: How should we evaluate generation systems that combine autoregressive (AR) and diffusion decoding?
By Aditi Gupta, Neel Mishra, Kushagra Trivedi, Pawan Kumar
arXiv:2606. 16847v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) offer a promising avenue for parallel generation but face a trade-off between decoding speed and quality.
By Yizhen Yao, Qinglin Zhu, Runcong Zhao, Xiangxiang Dai, Yanzheng Xiang, Yulan He, Lin Gui
arXiv:2608. 13925v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) accelerate language generation by predicting multiple masks in a single forward pass.
By Yuji Ren, Chenkai Xu, Zhuocheng Gong, Jianguo Li, Zhijie Deng
arXiv:2606. 04945v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion large language models (DLLMs) have recently emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive LLMs by generating text through iterative masked denoising with bidirectional context.
By Xin Yan, Aqiang Wang, Zhenglin Wan, Xingrui Yuand Ivor Tsang
arXiv:2608. 01460v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conformal prediction (CP) is a distribution-free framework for uncertainty quantification that has recently been adapted to large language models (LLMs), providing prediction sets with finite-sample coverage guarantees under exchangeability.
By Yuqicheng Zhu, Jialin Yu, Lin Li, Gengyuan Zhang, Zhen Yang, Steffen Staab, Puneet Dokania, Philip Torr, Jie Tang, Evgeny Kharlamov
The paper introduces Dependency-Aware Revocable Decoding (DARD), a training‑free framework for diffusion large language models that separates tokens into masked, candidate, and unmasked states. DARD verifies candidate tokens using a selective context that excludes less reliable tokens and adaptively regulates their influence on subsequent decoding. Experiments on 12 textual and multimodal benchmarks across three open‑source dLLMs show that DARD improves the speed‑quality Pareto frontier, achieving a 2.71× speedup and a 4.35‑point CIDEr gain over Saber on Flickr30K.
By Wooje Park, Insu Lee, Minyoung Noh, Jaeyun Jang, Sungmin Lee, Kyuhong Shim, Byonghyo Shim
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.
By Lexington Whalen, Yuki Ito, Ryo Sakamoto
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:2609.37887v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Activation and key-value cache precision change what a quantized language model computes without altering its stored weights. Direct weight-code bounds...
By Arian Eamaz, Mojtaba Soltanalian