arXiv:2602. 11590v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Masked diffusion models (MDMs) have emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive models, enabling parallel token generation while achieving competitive performance.
By Yair Schiff, Omer Belhasin, Roy Uziel, Guanghan Wang, Marianne Arriola, Gilad Turok, Ran Zilberstein, Michael Elad, Volodymyr Kuleshov
arXiv:2609.37974v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Masked diffusion models (MDMs) generate text by unmasking several tokens per step, but they are trained and sampled under different conditions. The m...
By Manuel Madeira, Amitis Shidani, Alice Bizeul, Victor Turrisi, Louis B\'ethune, Bhavika Devnani, Dan Busbridge, Pierre Ablin, Jo\~ao Monteiro
arXiv:2607. 24507v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing methods mainly adapt pretrained autoregressive (AR) language models to masked diffusion, whereas we directly adapt them to uniform-noise diffusion, where every token remains editable during sampling.
By Xiaoyi Jiang, Jingyuan Li, Yixuan Jiang, Wei Liu, Yi Zhu, Zuoqiang Shi, Pipi Hu
arXiv:2607. 19686v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Masked diffusion models (MDMs) are a promising family of language generators, but achieving high-quality few-step generation remains challenging.
By Sijin Chen, Yinuo Ren, Heyang Zhao, Ziheng Cheng, Quanquan Gu, Lexing Ying
arXiv:2601. 08379v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Pre-trained diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative priors for both unconditional and conditional sample generation, yet their outputs often deviate from the characteristics of user-specific target data.
By Matina Mahdizadeh Sani, Nima Jamali, Mohammad Jalali, Farzan Farnia
The paper examines how Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) perform on globally constrained discrete tasks such as Sudoku and N-queens. It shows that standard diffusion sampling, which keeps updates close to the noisy state, often preserves early mistakes, whereas sampling directly from the model’s clean predictions dramatically improves validity (e.g., Sudoku from 31% to 95%). The authors further introduce self‑correction training, exposing the model to its own predictions to reduce inference errors, which enhances the performance of standard samplers across tasks.
By Mariia Drozdova, St\'ephane Liem Nguyen, Fran\c{c}ois Fleuret