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cs.AI2026
PreDiff-LM: Pretrained Discrete Masked Diffusion Language Modeling with Hybrid Attention
Zhengtao Yao, Runhao Li, Xupeng Chen +12
The paper presents PreDiff-LM, a discrete masked diffusion language model that retains causal attention on the prompt while applying bidirectional attention within masked targets,…
cs.AI2026
Less Data, Better Alignment: Data-Centric Multi-Evaluator Agreement for Preference Optimization
Zhengtao Yao, Runhao Li, Xupeng Chen +12
Research on preference optimization often varies the training objective while holding the data fixed. We instead ask whether a small, high-confidence set of on-policy responses can…
cs.LG2026
TimeROME-DLM: Temporal Causal Tracing and Low-Rank Inference-Time Knowledge Editing for Masked Diffusion Language Models
Zhengtao Yao, Liuyang Song, Hongbo Zhang +4
Masked diffusion language models (MDLMs) such as LLaDA now rival autoregressive (AR) LLMs, but every existing knowledge-editing and unlearning method (ROME, MEMIT, etc.) targets AR…