arXiv AI September 2, 2026 By Jeong Hun Yeo, Chae Won Kim, Hyeongseop Rha, Yong Man Ro

Diffusion Large Language Models for Visual Speech Recognition

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arXiv AI

Jun 10

Whisfusion: Parallel ASR Decoding with Masked Diffusion

arXiv:2508. 07048v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autoregressive (AR) encoder-decoder models dominate high-quality multilingual ASR, but their left-to-right decoders make inference latency scale with transcript length.

By Taeyoun Kwon, Junhyuk Ahn, Taegeun Yun, Heeju Jwa, Yoonchae Choi, Siwon Park, Jongchan Kim, Hyungon Ryu, Hyuk-Jae Lee, Nam-Joon Kim

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arXiv Computation and Language

Aug 28

Visual Information-Guided Parallel Decoding for Diffusion Multimodal Large Language Models

Visual Information-Guided Parallel Decoding for Diffusion Multimodal Large Language Models introduces the VIG‑Sampler, a method that prioritizes tokens for decoding based on their attention to image tokens and penalizes redundancy in image‑attention distributions. The approach aims to improve the quality of multimodal generation by selecting more informative tokens during diffusion decoding. Experiments on seven captioning and VQA benchmarks with three open‑source dMLLMs show that VIG‑Sampler outperforms the Info‑Gain Sampler by an average of 19.3 CIDEr points and achieves better COCO Caption results using only half as many decoding steps.

By Insu Lee, Wooje Park, Wonseok Shin, Jinwoo Son, Byonghyo Shim

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 2

Reconsidering Positional Supervision in Masked Diffusion Language Model Training

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.

By Mengyu Ye, Keito Kudo, Ryosuke Takahashi, Jun Suzuki

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 11

Visual-Redundancy-Controlled Parallel Decoding for Diffusion-Based Multimodal Large Language Models

arXiv:2605. 25820v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion-based multimodal large language models (dMLLMs) decode by iteratively predicting tokens at multiple masked positions in parallel.

By Yulin Yuan, Hongshuo Zhao, Xiangming Meng

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arXiv AI

Jul 15

Audio-Native Speech Recognition with a Frozen Discrete-Diffusion Language Model

arXiv:2607. 13013v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic speech recognition is dominated by autoregressive decoders that emit one token at a time.

By Harsha Vardhan Khurdula, Abhinav Kumar Singh, Yoeven D Khemlani, Vineet Agarwal

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arXiv Computation and Language

Aug 28

Survival-Guided Length Control for Efficient Diffusion Language Models

The paper introduces a survival-guided length control method for diffusion language models (DLMs), framing length selection as a discrete-time survival problem over the end-of-sequence token. This training‑free, plug‑in length predictor can be added to any existing DLM and reduces unnecessary denoising steps. Experiments on reasoning and code‑generation benchmarks show up to a seven‑fold speedup in inference while maintaining task accuracy, and reveal that predicted lengths vary significantly even within the same dataset, affecting model performance.

By Ivan Kobyzev, Abbas Ghaddar, Yufei Cui

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