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Pivot-SD: Efficient Self-Distillation for Masked Diffusion Language Models

Paper recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-10-02 in cs.LG. Abstract reproduced from arXiv; link to the original below.

Published 2026-10-02 on arXiv · recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-10-05

Category: cs.LG · 机器学习 · first seen 2026-10-05

Abstract

Masked diffusion language models (dLMs) offer a promising parallel alternative to autoregressive models for complex reasoning. However, they face a distinct credit-assignment challenge, since a few commitments during denoising sharply reduce the uncertainty over the remaining masked positions and shape much of the response. Most post-training recipes for dLMs do not use this signal to decide which

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