2 papers
cs.CL2026
Beyond Hard Masks: Progressive Token Evolution for Diffusion Language Models
Linhao Zhong, Linyu Wu, Bozhen Fang +6
Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) offer a promising alternative for language modeling by enabling parallel decoding through iterative refinement. However, most DLMs rely on hard bin…
cs.CL2025
Time Is a Feature: Exploiting Temporal Dynamics in Diffusion Language Models
Wen Wang, Bozhen Fang, Chenchen Jing +6
Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) generate text through iterative denoising, yet current decoding strategies discard rich intermediate predictions in favor of the final outpu…