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arXiv:2601. 22947v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Masked diffusion language models (MDLMs) generate text by unmasking tokens in parallel and have recently emerged as alternatives to autoregressive language models.
arXiv:2606. 16847v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) offer a promising avenue for parallel generation but face a trade-off between decoding speed and quality.
arXiv:2607. 24507v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing methods mainly adapt pretrained autoregressive (AR) language models to masked diffusion, whereas we directly adapt them to uniform-noise diffusion, where every token remains editable during sampling.
The paper introduces Corrective Diffusion Language Models (CDLMs), which enhance masked diffusion language models by explicitly supervising visible corrupted tokens to enable confidence-guided refinement of incorrect tokens. Experiments show that this correction-oriented post‑training improves iterative refinement and parallel decoding across models ranging from 0.5B to 8B, outperforming standard masked‑diffusion fine‑tuning on benchmarks such as Code Revision, HumanEval(+), and MATH. The authors also provide a new Code Revision Benchmark and release code and data for reproducibility.
arXiv:2605. 26436v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Discrete masked diffusion language models such as LLaDA generate text through iterative denoising, where mask tokens are progressively replaced with predicted tokens.
arXiv:2607. 20467v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While parallel decoding is central to the efficiency of Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs), current strategies are often hindered by overly conservative confidence thresholds.