arXiv Machine Learning August 18, 2026 By Pawan Kumar

Discrete Diffusion Language Models Are Training-Free Multi-Label Classifiers

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arXiv:2608. 14649v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present dLLM-SetScore, a training-free method that uses discrete masked-diffusion language models for multi-label text classification.

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