arXiv:2609.37533v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Masked diffusion models (MDMs) generate sequences by progressively unmasking several tokens per denoising step, but their reverse process is typically...
By Arseny Ivanov, Alexander Kolesov, Alexander Korotin, Ivan Oseledets, Mikhail Goncharov
arXiv:2603. 00045v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion language models theoretically allow for efficient parallel generation but are practically hindered by the ``factorization barrier'': the assumption that simultaneously predicted tokens are independent.
By Ian Li, Zilei Shao, Benjie Wang, Rose Yu, Guy Van den Broeck, Anji Liu
The paper introduces Less Uniform Diffusion (LUDI), a framework that improves uniform diffusion language models by using a less uniform loss and per-token time embeddings to guide reverse transitions and enable confidence-based few-step sampling. Experiments demonstrate that LUDI provides cleaner supervision, enhances few-step generation, and scales to a 7B model (LUDI-7B) that achieves a 3-token-per-step speedup over autoregressive decoding while matching masked diffusion baselines. The work suggests that UDLMs still have untapped potential for complex generation tasks.
By Kaibo Wang, Ding Ding, Fangyu Ding, Zijin Feng, Han Shi, Haili Bai, Jiacheng Sun, Yang Xiang
arXiv:2606. 00837v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion models provide strong priors for generating structured data, but many tasks require outputs beyond the scale on which these models are typically trained.
By Byoungwoo Park, Utkarsh A. Mishra, Jaemoo Choi, Juho Lee, Yongxin Chen
arXiv:2503. 05641v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Combining existing pre-trained LLMs is a promising approach for diverse reasoning tasks.
By Justin Chih-Yao Chen, Sukwon Yun, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Tianlong Chen, Mohit Bansal
arXiv:2602. 12262v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion large language models (DLLMs) have emerged as powerful generative models with the promise of fast text generation through parallel decoding.
By Tunyu Zhang, Xinxi Zhang, Ligong Han, Haizhou Shi, Xiaoxiao He, Zhuowei Li, Hao Wang, Kai Xu, Akash Srivastava, Chengzhi Mao, Hao Wang, Vladimir Pavlovic, Dimitris N. Metaxas