CForce: Boosting Parallel Decoding for dLLMs via Consistency Forcing
arXiv:2608. 13925v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) accelerate language generation by predicting multiple masks in a single forward pass.
arXiv:2608. 13925v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) accelerate language generation by predicting multiple masks in a single forward pass.
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...
The paper introduces Reliable Parallel Decoding (RPD) for masked diffusion language models, addressing the unreliability of committing multiple predictions from a single forward pass. Diagnostics reveal that confidence alone is insufficient, as confident end‑sequence predictions can preempt necessary upstream computations, and downstream predictions degrade with upstream uncertainty. RPD selects candidates based on layer‑wise stability and final confidence, committing them under an entropy budget while deferring uncertain predictions, achieving superior throughput and competitive accuracy on LLaDA and Dream benchmarks.
arXiv:2609.36202v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Gradient-based reward guidance provides a flexible way to use downstream reward models to control masked diffusion language models at inference time....
arXiv:2606. 15805v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Discrete diffusion language models enable parallel token generation, offering a pathway to low-latency decoding.
arXiv:2606. 02955v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion large language models promise parallel token generation, yet inference remains bottlenecked by deciding which masked tokens can be safely committed together.
arXiv:2608.22646v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion language models can generate many tokens in parallel, but they still require repeated denoising steps during inference. This makes generation...
arXiv:2601. 07568v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) offer capabilities beyond those of autoregressive (AR) LLMs, such as parallel decoding and random-order generation.
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:2609.37391v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion language models (DLMs) enable parallel generation by predicting and committing multiple tokens at each denoising step, yet they can generate...
The paper introduces TIPS, a tiny inference-time policy that controls which tokens are visible during each denoising pass of masked diffusion language models. TIPS, a 600‑K‑parameter shallow transformer, learns to unmask and remask tokens while keeping the language model frozen, using visibility‑aware confidence features and a fixed schedule for expected visibility. Trained via supervised warmup and reinforcement learning, TIPS achieves over 58% accuracy on GSM8K and MATH‑500 with only 32 decoder evaluations, surpassing strong baselines by more than 11 percentage points and remaining competitive at higher budgets without retraining.
arXiv:2605.10980v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion Language Models (dLLMs) have garnered significant attention for their potential in highly parallel processing. The parallel capabilities...