arXiv:2610.27805v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding of linear block codes is NP-hard, so neural decoders are evaluated by how closely they approach it. We observe that...
By Jaeho Hwang, Byung-Sun Won, Uiwon Hwang
arXiv:2610.19510v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Block-diffusion language models denoise a whole block of token positions in parallel so each forward pass can emit many tokens. However, blocks are sti...
By Yangyi Shen, Pin-Jui Ku, Nicolai Oswald, Jean-Marie Lemercier, Yonggan Fu, Stefano Ermon, Jure Leskovec, Boris Ginsburg, Ante Juki\'c
arXiv:2510. 04767v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While most autoregressive LLMs are constrained to one-by-one decoding, diffusion LLMs (dLLMs) have attracted growing interest for their potential to dramatically accelerate inference through parallel decoding.
By Wonjun Kang, Kevin Galim, Seunghyuk Oh, Minjae Lee, Yuchen Zeng, Shuibai Zhang, Coleman Hooper, Yuezhou Hu, Hyung Il Koo, Nam Ik Cho, Kangwook Lee
arXiv:2608.30922v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Masked diffusion language models predict tokens from a partially observed response canvas, enabling bidirectional conditioning and parallel token refin...
By Wail Bouhedja, Amr Mohamed, Guokan Shang
Masked diffusion language models predict tokens from a partially observed response canvas, enabling bidirectional conditioning and parallel token refinement. Yet standard masked-diffusion decoders use...
arXiv:2608.28910v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Coded computing has emerged as a powerful paradigm for mitigating the impact of straggling workers in distributed computing systems. However, existing...
By Parsa Moradi, Behrooz Tahmasebi, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali
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.
By Zhenghao He, Bohan Liu, Guangzhi Xiong, Aidong Zhang
arXiv:2610.17590v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Diffusion language models (DLMs) have attracted wide attention for their fast, parallel decoding, but they are believed to be far less efficient to t...
By Guanghan Wang, Bing He, Zhan Shi, Benoit Dumoulin, Hanqing Lu, Volodymyr Kuleshov
arXiv:2606. 02628v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We investigate whether open-source LLMs encode a linearly separable truthfulness signal in their hidden states, and at which network depth this signal is strongest.
By Aizierjiang Aiersilan
arXiv:2607. 01799v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) decompose internal activations of neural networks into sparse linear combinations of learned features by fitting an overcomplete dictionary $\mathbf{W}\in\mathbb{R}^{m\times n}$ with $m<n$, and inferring a sparse code $\mathbf{x}\in\mathbb{R}^n$ from $\mathbf{h}\approx\mathbf{W}\mathbf{x}$.
By Rodrigo Mendoza-Smith
The paper investigates the limits of the maximal coding rate reduction (MCR²) framework for out‑of‑distribution (OOD) generalisation. It shows that MCR² can lead to complete prediction failure under distribution shift, even when a perfectly stable feature is available, and that adding invariance principles from IRM or REx does not resolve this issue. The authors conclude that additional assumptions or learning principles are needed to guarantee stable OOD predictions with MCR².
By Menghui Zhou, Gaoshan Bi, Vitaveska Lanfranchi, Po Yang
arXiv:2609.16450v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) offer a promising parallel decoding paradigm as an alternative to autoregressive generation through iterative...
By Lixuan Wei, Wei Zhou, Jianwen Wu, Yipeng Shen, Meiling Wang, Haoran You