2 papers
cs.LG2026
DACA-GRPO: Denoising-Aware Credit Assignment for Reinforcement Learning in Diffusion Language Models
Amin Karimi Monsefi, Dominic Culver, Nikhil Bhendawade +4
Diffusion large language models are a compelling alternative to autoregressive models, yet existing RL methods for diffusion treat all denoising steps as equally important and rely…
cs.LG2026
Trajectory as the Teacher: Few-Step Discrete Flow Matching via Energy-Navigated Distillation
Amin Karimi Monsefi, Dominic Culver, Nikhil Bhendawade +3
Discrete flow matching generates text by iteratively transforming noise tokens into coherent language, but may require hundreds of forward passes. Distillation uses the multi-step…