A Survey on Diffusion Language Models
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.
arXiv:2606. 08408v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We extend activation steering to diffusion language models (DLMs) and study a novel problem that arose due to the inference mechanism of DLMs: Modifying a text in-place to manifest a different concept.
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.
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.
arXiv:2510. 08734v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A growing body of research has demonstrated that the behavior of large language models can be effectively controlled at inference time by directly modifying their internal states, either through vector additions to their activations or through updates to their weight matrices.
arXiv:2605. 08116v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent work on text diffusion models offers a promising alternative to autoregressive generation, but controlling their safety remains underexplored.
arXiv:2603. 00133v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generative models have been shown to "memorize" certain training data, leading to verbatim or near-verbatim generating images, which may cause privacy concerns or copyright infringement.
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.
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.
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.
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.
arXiv:2603. 08026v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Masked diffusion language models enable parallel token decoding, providing a promising alternative to the sequential nature of autoregressive generation.
arXiv:2601. 17917v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) offer a compelling paradigm for natural language generation, leveraging parallel decoding and bidirectional attention to achieve superior global coherence compared to autoregressive models.
arXiv:2606. 00462v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Short-form text rewriting is a constrained variant of paraphrasing in which limited context and high semantic density leave little room for variation.