Diffusion LM papers in 2026

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2026-05-20T07:06:54Z · Inference acceleration, Long context · Source

PulseCol: Periodically Refreshed Column-Sparse Attention for Accelerating Diffusion Language Models

Inference in diffusion large language models (dLLMs) is computationally expensive, as full self-attention must be repeatedly executed at each step of the denoising process without KV cache. Recent sparse attention methods for dLLMs mitigate this cost via block-sparse computation, which is applied only in later iterations when model performance is less sensitive to coarse-grained sparse approximation, but yields limited improvements in computational efficiency and acceleration. This motivates a finer-grained sparsification strategy that can be applied from earlier iterations and leverages reusa

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2026-05-18T06:39:10+00:00 · Masked / discrete diffusion, Long context, Reasoning · Source

Prompt Compression in Diffusion Large Language Models: Evaluating LLMLingua-2 on LLaDA

Prompt compression reduces inference cost and context length in large language models, but prior evaluations focus primarily on autoregressive architectures. This study investigates whether prompt compression transfers effectively to diffusion large language models (DLLMs) using LLMLingua-2, specifically the 8B-parameter DLLM LLaDA. We evaluate compression performance on GSM8K, DUC2004, and ShareGPT using 250 prompts per dataset at an approximate 2$\times$ compression ratio, across mathematical reasoning, prompt reconstruction, and summarization tasks. Outputs generated from original prompts,

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