Data-Efficient Autoregressive-to-Diffusion Language Models via On-Policy Distillation
arXiv:2606. 06712v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the transformation of autoregressive models (ARLMs) into diffusion language models (DLMs).
arXiv:2606. 06712v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the transformation of autoregressive models (ARLMs) into diffusion language models (DLMs).
Diffusion language models (dLLMs) have emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive (AR) language models, offering flexible token-update orders and parallel decoding. Recent dLLMs are often in...
arXiv:2608.22898v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion language models (DLMs) alleviate the inherent latency bottleneck of autoregressive (AR) large language models (LLMs), but their degraded gene...
arXiv:2609.37974v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Masked diffusion models (MDMs) generate text by unmasking several tokens per step, but they are trained and sampled under different conditions. The m...
arXiv:2610.08108v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion language models (dLLMs) have emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive (AR) language models, offering flexible token-update orders...
arXiv:2602. 12262v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion large language models (DLLMs) have emerged as powerful generative models with the promise of fast text generation through parallel decoding.
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.
PlaidQ is a 0.7B continuous diffusion language model designed for code generation. By distilling its iterative refinement trajectory into only a few denoising steps—or even a single step—PlaidQ achieves competitive performance with discrete diffusion models while dramatically reducing inference time. The study demonstrates that continuous diffusion can be effectively compressed, enabling efficient and accurate code generation with minimal computational overhead.
arXiv:2606. 25331v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern large language models are predominantly trained with autoregressive factorization and causal attention.
arXiv:2609.38364v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Discrete diffusion models and flow matching have emerged as powerful frameworks for generative modeling over discrete state spaces, yet efficient few...
arXiv:2609.40235v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continuous diffusion language models generate all tokens in parallel, yet high-quality generation can still require hundreds of network evaluations (...
arXiv:2610.28559v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continuous flow language models offer a path to parallel generation with tools for control and acceleration unavailable to discrete diffusion, yet ef...