arXiv:2607. 28166v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion language models expose a provisional prediction at every denoising step, and on many tasks the candidate answer inside it stabilizes before the step schedule is exhausted.
By Chia-Ming Lee, Shao-Kai Liu, Ming-Ching Chang, Xin Li, Yu-Lun Liu, Chih-Chung Hsu
arXiv:2608. 11235v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion language models (DLMs) update many tokens in parallel, yet practical decoders often use a fixed denoising horizon.
By Yifan Wu, Yufeng Zhang, Kenli Li
TeCoP is a training‑free decoder that accelerates diffusion large language model (dLLM) decoding by decoupling prediction readiness from context utility. It uses tentative context pipelining and draft‑and‑verify to reuse stable but uncommitted predictions as provisional cross‑block context, with commitment based on confidence and stability checks. Across four dLLMs on GSM8K, Minerva MATH, and MBPP, TeCoP cuts forward evaluations by up to 87% and boosts throughput up to 7.5‑fold without KV caching and 11.77‑fold with caching, outperforming Fast‑dLLM and DSB while maintaining accuracy within one percentage point.
By Jui-Chien Tsou, Hsuan-Chi Liu, Wei-Chin Wang, Yu-Syuan Xu, Chun-Yi Lee
CoDR (Confidence Drift Remasking) is a training‑free, sampler‑agnostic refinement pass for masked diffusion language models that detects and corrects early token commitments that become unsupported as context grows denser. It estimates confidence drift for all committed positions using only a few forward passes and remasks only the tokens whose confidence has dropped, thereby improving accuracy across multiple backbones, tasks, and samplers with modest computational overhead.
By Yue Wu, Qinghe Zhang, Yu Zhang, Jian Huang
arXiv:2610.17266v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Diffusion language models are a promising and more efficient alternative to autoregressive models. However, most RL post-training techniques are not ea...
By Vaibhav Singh, Eugene Belilovsky
arXiv:2606. 14620v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open diffusion language models are marketed as parallel, non-autoregressive decoders, yet the order in which a shipped checkpoint actually commits its tokens is almost never measured.
By Ali Asaria, Tony Salomone, Deep Gandhi
arXiv:2610.22543v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Diffusion language models (DLMs) promise parallel text generation, but in practice face an unresolved speed-quality trade-off. Exact decoding fills in...
By Eliezer Shlomi, Eliron Rahimi, Avi Mendelson, Chaim Baskin
arXiv:2609.38510v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Speculative decoding accelerates autoregressive LLMs by having a lightweight drafter propose tokens that the target model verifies in parallel. Diffusi...
By Longxuan Yu, Bingsen Chen, Peng Shi, Dongkyu Lee, Yi Xiang, Hideo Kobayashi, Sheng Zhang, Shuaichen Chang, Xing Niu, Zhuoyan Xu, Greg Ver Steeg, Jiarong Jiang
arXiv:2604. 18738v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion language models (dLLMs) generate text through iterative denoising, filling multiple masked positions at each step.
By Lin Yao
The paper explores a new lossy strategy for speculative decoding called verifier skipping, which allows certain draft prefixes to be committed without invoking the verifier. It investigates which confidence signals—raw token confidence, learned marginal survival, or learned conditional survival—best schedule these skips, finding that raw confidence often performs best despite higher positionwise AUROC for learned signals. Experiments on HumanEval with DiffuCoder-7B-Instruct and Qwen3-32B show that all three signals can reduce verifier calls by 9.6% to 13.5% while maintaining the same pass@1 as Strict SDD.
By Haoxuan Luo, Jameson Sandler, Ferdinando Fioretto
arXiv:2606. 11552v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) achieve remarkable performance across a wide range of tasks, but their autoregressive decoding process incurs substantial inference costs due to inherently sequential token generation.
By Lexington Whalen, Yuki Ito, Ryo Sakamoto
arXiv:2608.30427v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Speculative decoding speeds up generation with an efficient draft model (drafter) that proposes tokens for a target model to verify in one pass, pres...
By Ephrem Wu