arXiv:2611.06371v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Summarization with a fixed character length is important for tasks such as headline and article preview generation, where text must fit an exact space....
By Steffen Castle, Nils Feldhus, Christopher Ebert, Leonhard Hennig, Sebastian M\"oller
The paper introduces Seq-Drifting, a new framework that enables diffusion language models to generate an entire text sequence in a single forward pass. By applying a drift field to continuous token representations, the model learns a direct mapping from Gaussian noise to text, using attraction to guide outputs toward contextually plausible tokens and repulsion to prevent repetition and collapse. Experiments show that Seq-Drifting achieves a perplexity of 36.01 on LM1B and performs competitively in unconditional, conditional, translation, summarization, and reasoning tasks.
By Jiayu Liu, Ruizhi Zhao, Tianyun Ji, Yee Whye Teh, Zhenya Huang, Ning Miao
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
arXiv:2503.06868v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Existing long-text generation methods produce lengthy outputs from short inputs, leaving long-input-to-long-output generation underexplored....
By Junhao Zhang, Richong Zhang, Fanshuang Kong, Ziyang Miao, Yanhan Ye, Yaowei Zheng
arXiv:2608. 16513v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in diffusion models and Transformer architectures have led to significant progress in text-to-video generation.
By Junhao Chen, Zheqi Lv, Keting Yin, Shengyu Zhang, Zhou Zhao, Feiyang Chen, Xinyu Duan, Baoxing Huai, Fei Wu
The paper introduces a survival-guided length control method for diffusion language models (DLMs), framing length selection as a discrete-time survival problem over the end-of-sequence token. This training‑free, plug‑in length predictor can be added to any existing DLM and reduces unnecessary denoising steps. Experiments on reasoning and code‑generation benchmarks show up to a seven‑fold speedup in inference while maintaining task accuracy, and reveal that predicted lengths vary significantly even within the same dataset, affecting model performance.
By Ivan Kobyzev, Abbas Ghaddar, Yufei Cui
arXiv:2606. 04535v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) offer bidirectional attention and parallel generation, enabling them to exploit global context and naturally support format-constrained tasks like parseable JSON or reasoning templates.
By Boyan Han, Yiwei Wang, Yi Song, Yujun Cai, Chi Zhang
arXiv:2610.33811v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Continuous-state flow and diffusion models offer a promising approach to fast, parallel language generation, but matching the generation quality of aut...
By Baiyu Su, Runlong Liao, Lizhang Chen, Qiang Liu
arXiv:2511. 21338v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Masked Diffusion Language Models (MDLMs) have recently emerged as a promising alternative to Autoregressive Language Models (ARLMs), leveraging a denoising objective that, in principle, should enable more uniform context utilisation.
By Julianna Piskorz, Cristina Pinneri, Alvaro Correia, Motasem Alfarra, Risheek Garrepalli, Christos Louizos
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.
By Zakhar Kohut, Severyn Shykula, Mykola Vysotskyi, Serhii Dmytryshyn, Dmytro Khamula, Michal Zakrzewski, Damian Rynczak, Jacek Ma{\l}ecki, Taras Rumezhak, Volodymyr Karpiv
The paper introduces Representation-based Masked Diffusion Model (RMDM), a new framework for language modeling that improves upon existing Masked Diffusion Models by incorporating global semantic guidance. RMDM encodes text into a continuous semantic space with a pretrained encoder, normalizes this representation to a Gaussian prior via an invertible transformation, and then trains a masked diffusion model conditioned on this latent representation to coordinate parallel token updates. Experiments show that RMDM yields higher generation quality, especially when using aggressive few‑step sampling.
By Yangrong Hu, Ding Huang, Xueyu Zhou, Jian Huang
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