arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

Few-Step Diffusion Language Models via Trajectory Self-Distillation

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
arXiv Machine Learning
5d ago

KDFP: A first-principles approach to knowledge distillation in large language models

KDFP is a new white‑box methodology for general knowledge distillation in large language models, addressing a gap left by prior work that focused mainly on post‑training abilities such as instruction following and chain‑of‑thought reasoning. The authors evaluate lessons from earlier studies and conduct new experiments to design a distillation approach tailored to modern LLMs. KDFP achieves 1.6%–4.9% higher performance across nine benchmarks and improves training efficiency by up to 99.1% through reduced temporary parameters.

By Ryan Swift, Konstantinos Psounis