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Commitment Before Realization: When Classifier-Free Guidance Becomes Unnecessary in Masked Diffusion Language Models
Fan Zhou, Weitian Wang, Tim Van de Cruys
Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is usually kept on throughout masked diffusion language model decoding, although its benefit varies across prompts and over time. We study when CFG i…
cs.CL2026
-Prediction Flow: Efficient Continuous Decoding for Masked Diffusion Language Models
Weitian Wang, Lianlei Shan, Shubham Rai +2
Masked diffusion language models (MDLMs) generate text by iteratively unmasking tokens, but their standard decoder reduces each step to a binary action: a position is either commit…