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...
By Farhana Amin, Sabiha Afroz, Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos
The paper introduces PACE-dLLM, an acceleration method for diffusion language models (dLLMs) that uses the model’s own per‑step confidence to estimate a ‘confidence cliff’ and determine the optimal look‑ahead horizon for block decoding. By fitting this cliff in closed form at each step, PACE-dLLM sets the horizon to its saturation point and applies an independent confidence threshold for token commitment, thereby avoiding the trade‑offs inherent in fixed‑size block decoding. Experiments on reasoning and code benchmarks show that PACE-dLLM achieves the best average accuracy on open‑source dLLM backbones while delivering significant wall‑clock speedups—up to 5.23× on LLaDA and 3.06× on Dream—improving the quality‑throughput Pareto frontier.
By Xiaocheng Lu, Shuhan Guo, Ziyue Ma, Jie Zhang, Jian Liu, Jingcai Guo, Haoxuan Che, Song Guo
The paper introduces ELF-REG, a scaling of continuous diffusion language models (dLMs) for reasoning tasks. By aligning representations and using a frozen autoregressive teacher to supervise intermediate denoiser features, ELF-REG achieves higher pass@1 rates on GSM8K, MATH-500, HumanEval, and MBPP compared to prior dLMs. The method also enables strong low‑NFE performance through early‑stop decoding of intermediate predictions.
By Zeyu Michael Li, William Xingxu Chen, Bingshuo Qian, Jiayin Liu, Xiang Cheng
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...
By Manuel Madeira, Amitis Shidani, Alice Bizeul, Victor Turrisi, Louis B\'ethune, Bhavika Devnani, Dan Busbridge, Pierre Ablin, Jo\~ao Monteiro
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
arXiv:2608. 13925v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) accelerate language generation by predicting multiple masks in a single forward pass.
By Yuji Ren, Chenkai Xu, Zhuocheng Gong, Jianguo Li, Zhijie Deng