Diffusion LM papers in 2026

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2026-08-12T07:32:29+00:00 · Inference acceleration, Reasoning · Source

Ripple-Pivot Search: Active Parallel Decoding for Diffusion Large Language Models

Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) have emerged as a competitive alternative to autoregressive language models, offering the potential for substantially faster inference through parallel decoding. Existing parallel decoding schedulers typically commit positions only after they meet a per-position criterion, overlooking how early commitments may benefit subsequent decoding. We identify a ripple effect in dLLM decoding: proactively committing a mid-entropy pivot position can induce a pronounced reduction in uncertainty across the remaining masked positions. This uncertainty reduction allows

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2026-08-08T12:13:10+00:00 · Inference acceleration · Source

Archer: Adaptive Reuse of Cached Hidden States for Efficient Rollback in Diffusion Language Models

Diffusion language models (DLMs) iteratively refine a sequence, allowing earlier predictions to be revised as context evolves. This rollback capability distinguishes them from irreversible autoregressive generation, but makes inference costly. Every denoising update alters the global context, forcing both prompt and response states to be recomputed even though only response tokens are revisable. Key-value (KV) caching could reduce this cost, yet conventional caching assumes immutable historical states and is therefore difficult to reconcile with rollback. In this paper, we introduce Adaptive R

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2026-08-06T22:34:20+00:00 · Masked / discrete diffusion, Inference acceleration, Post-training · Source

Retrofitting Linear Attention into Diffusion Language Models

Diffusion language models (dLLMs) offer a promising alternative to autoregressive models by accelerating inference through parallel decoding. Recent dLLMs commonly use blockwise semi-autoregressive decoding, generating blocks autoregressively while denoising tokens within each active block in parallel. However, despite KV caching, each denoising step still attends to all previous blocks, repeatedly incurring prefix-attention cost. Motivated by this bottleneck, we ask whether dLLM inference can be further accelerated by linearizing attention over previous blocks. We introduce block-hybrid atten

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