arXiv AI By Yifan Wu, Yufeng Zhang, Kenli Li

CORA-Diff: Confidence-Oriented Residual Acceptance for Efficient Diffusion Language Model Inference

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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.

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