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:2607. 22663v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Block diffusion has emerged as the dominant paradigm for scaling discrete diffusion language models (dLLMs), because decoding text in fixed-size blocks preserves parallel generation within each block while keeping the quadratic attention cost tractable.
By Xingyu Mou, Zijin Huang, Tianze Zhang, Yuxin Ma, Lanning Wei, Zengfeng Huang, Da Zheng, Lun Du
Diffusion language models (dLLMs) generate text by iteratively denoising a masked response and can commit multiple output positions per model invocation. Their bidirectional attention prevents exact autoregressive-style KV caching, since committing one position shifts the KV activations of all others.
arXiv:2605. 29233v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion language models (dLLMs) generate text by iteratively denoising multiple token positions in parallel, offering an attractive alternative to strictly autoregressive decoding.
By Xiaoyou Wu, Cheng-Jhih Shih, Binfei Ji, Yong Liu, Yingyan Celine Lin
arXiv:2607. 04206v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion language models (dLLMs) generate text by iteratively denoising a masked response and can commit multiple output positions per model invocation.
By Nitin Kedia, Saurabh Agarwal, Myungjin Lee, Aditya Akella
arXiv:2608. 06628v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion language models (dLLMs) offer a promising alternative to autoregressive models by accelerating inference through parallel decoding.
By Jinha Kim, Younghun Roh, Jaeyeon Kim
arXiv:2606. 29215v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Block Diffusion Language Models (BD-LMs) improve diffusion-based text generation with KV caching and flexible-length generation.
By Yijie Jin, Jiajun Xu, Yuxuan Liu, Chenkai Xu, Yi Tu, Jiajun Li, Dandan Tu, Xiaohui Yan, Kai Yu, Pengfei Liu, Zhijie Deng
arXiv:2606. 27732v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Discrete diffusion language models (dLLMs) recover masked tokens in parallel, offering significant speedups over autoregressive (AR) generation.
By Yuhang Chen, Xianfeng Wu, Jinhao Duan, Mingfu Liang, Xiaohan Wei, Yunchen Pu, Fei Tian, Chonglin Sun, Parish Aggarwal, Frank Shyu, Luke Simon, Sandeep Pandey, Xi Liu, Tianlong Chen
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
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:2607. 14107v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The inference efficiency of diffusion large language models (dLLMs) is constrained by two challenges: bidirectional attention precludes efficient KV-cache reuse, while increasing decoding parallelism with static confidence thresholds can compromise generation quality.
By Mingyu Lee, Akshat Ramachandran, Souvik Kundu, Tushar Krishna
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