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: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.
By Tianyi Li, Mingda Chen, Bowei Guo, Zhiqiang Shen
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.
Masked diffusion language models (dLLMs) have recently emerged as a competitive alternative to autoregressive language models, with the promise of faster inference via parallel token generation. A notable limitation of the masked formulation, however, is that once a token has been unmasked it can no longer be revised, leaving dLLMs vulnerable to early sampling mistakes.
arXiv:2606. 29228v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite the capability of parallel decoding, diffusion large language models (dLLMs) require many denoising steps to maintain generation quality, motivating recent research on efficient decoding strategies.
By Hengxiang Zhang, Jiaxi Ren, Hongxin Wei
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.
By Thomas Bertolani, Davide Bucciarelli, Leonardo Zini, Marcella Cornia, Lorenzo Baraldi
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: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.
By Miao Li, Hanyang Jiang, Sikai Cheng, Hengyu Fu, Yuhang Cai, Baihe Huang, Tinghan Ye, Xuanzhou Chen, Pascal Van Hentenryck
Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) have recently become increasingly competitive with autoregressive (AR) models, and even outperform them on certain tasks. Unlike AR models, DLMs produce output through...
The paper introduces DLM-One, a score‑distillation framework that enables one‑step sequence generation with continuous diffusion language models (DLMs). By aligning a student model’s outputs with a pretrained teacher DLM’s score function in the forward‑diffused noisy space, DLM-One removes the need for iterative refinement. Experiments across various DLM architectures show up to ~2000× speedup in sampling steps and ~500× in wall‑clock time while retaining competitive performance, and the authors propose an adversarially‑regularized two‑stage training scheme to mitigate student degeneration.
By Tianqi Chen, Shujian Zhang, Mingyuan Zhou
arXiv:2602.00612v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) have demonstrated promising generative capabilities and are increasingly used to produce formal languages d...
By Yitong Zhang, Yongmin Li, Yuetong Liu, Jia Li, Xiaoran Jia, Zherui Li, Ge Li
arXiv:2605. 17932v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Prompt compression reduces inference cost and context length in large language models, but prior evaluations focus mainly on autoregressive architectures.
By Sterling Huang, Abigayle Brown, Jiyoo Noh, Jiakang Xu, Wantong Huo, Kaung Myat Kyaw, Jonathan Chan