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:2605. 13026v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Masked diffusion models (MDMs) have emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive models (ARMs) for language modeling.
By Chunsan Hong, Sanghyun Lee, Chieh-Hsin Lai, Satoshi Hayakawa, Yuhta Takida, Yuki Mitsufuji, Seungryong Kim, Jong Chul Ye
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:2604. 26985v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Masked diffusion models (MDMs) generate discrete sequences by iterative denoising under an absorbing masking process.
By Michael Cardei, Huu Binh Ta, Ferdinando Fioretto
arXiv:2601. 22450v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Masked Diffusion Language Models have recently emerged as a powerful generative paradigm, yet their generalization properties remain understudied compared to their auto-regressive counterparts.
By Jianhao Huang, Baharan Mirzasoleiman
arXiv:2606. 28301v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inference-time scaling is a promising paradigm to improve generative models, especially when outputs must satisfy structural constraints or optimize downstream rewards.
By Kijung Jeon, Thuy-Duong Vuong, Molei Tao