3 papers
cs.LG2026
Masked Diffusion Models as Energy Minimization
Sitong Chen, Shen Nie, Jiacheng Sun +4
We present a systematic theoretical framework that interprets masked diffusion models (MDMs) as solutions to energy minimization problems in discrete optimal transport. Specificall…
cs.LG2026
Your Absorbing Discrete Diffusion Secretly Models the Conditional Distributions of Clean Data
Jingyang Ou, Shen Nie, Kaiwen Xue +4
Discrete diffusion models with absorbing processes have shown promise in language modeling. The key quantities to be estimated are the ratios between the marginal probabilities of…
cs.CL2026
Beyond Masks: Efficient, Flexible Diffusion Language Models via Deletion-Insertion Processes
Fangyu Ding, Ding Ding, Sijin Chen +8
While Masked Diffusion Language Models (MDLMs) relying on token masking and unmasking have shown promise in language modeling, their computational efficiency and generation flexibi…