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  1. DiMOS: Doob-Guided Inference-Time Multi-Objective Search for Scientific Design

    Oct 5, 2026Ziqing Wang, Qijie Zhu, Weimin Wu +4Masked Diffusion ModelsInference-Time Search

    Northwestern University

  2. CleanMDM: Clean Motion Diffusion Model for Multimodal Motion Cleanup

    Oct 4, 2026Zhe Li, Shicheng Wang, Bowen Cai +1Masked Diffusion ModelsMotion Diffusion Models

    Peking University · Light Origins · Alibaba

  3. Fork-dLLM: Avoiding the Flexibility Trap in Diffusion Language Models

    Sep 30, 2026Stipe Frković, Metod Jazbec, Christian A. NaessethMasked Diffusion ModelsSpeculative Decoding for Diffusion Language Models

    University of Amsterdam · UvA-Bosch Delta Lab, University of Amsterdam

  4. CDMD: A Cross-Dataset Mixed-Type Diffusion Model for Tabular Data

    Sep 30, 2026Mohamed Amine Ketata, Maximilian Schambach, Stephan GünnemannMasked Diffusion ModelsTabular Diffusion Models

    Munich Data Science Institute, Technical University of Munich, Germany · SAP SE, Germany

  5. Conditional Generation of Creative Chess Puzzles with Diffusion Models

    Sep 29, 2026Aatu Selkee, Severi Rissanen, Xidong Feng +2Masked Diffusion ModelsComputational Creativity

    Aalto University · Google DeepMind

  6. Fine-Tuning Diffusion Language Models with Context Selection and Target Weighting

    Sep 29, 2026Loay Mualem, Lluís Pastor-Pérez, Vinh Tong +4Masked Diffusion ModelsDiffusion Model Fine-Tuning

    IMPRS-IS · Institute for AI, University of Stuttgart · Bitdefender

  7. On Trajectory-Aware Training for Masked Diffusion Language Models

    Sep 29, 2026Manuel Madeira, Amitis Shidani, Alice Bizeul +6Masked Diffusion ModelsDiffusion Language Model Inference

    EPFL · Apple · Georgia Institute of Technology

  8. E-MoE: Enhanced Mixture-of-Experts for Non-Factorized Diffusion Language Models

    Sep 29, 2026Arseny Ivanov, Alexander Kolesov, Alexander Korotin +2Masked Diffusion ModelsFew-Step Diffusion Sampling

    AXXX, Moscow, Russia · Applied AI Institute, Moscow, Russia

  9. How Should Diffusion Language Models Edit Code?

    Sep 29, 2026Xijia Tao, Ziru Liu, Shansan Gong +7Masked Diffusion ModelsLanguage Model Editing

    The University of Hong Kong · Huawei Technologies Ltd. · City University of Hong Kong +1

  10. Reliable Parallel Decoding in Masked Diffusion Language Models

    Sep 29, 2026Zhenghao He, Bohan Liu, Guangzhi Xiong +1Masked Diffusion ModelsDiffusion Language Model Decoding

    Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia

  11. Twist, Don't Tilt: Trajectory-Exact Constrained Decoding for Masked Diffusion Models

    Sep 28, 2026Aditya Thimmaiah, Lara Marinov, Jayanth Srinivasa +3Constrained DecodingMasked Diffusion Models

    The University of Texas at Austin · Cisco Research

  12. DiMoP: Diffusion-Driven Motion Representation Learning With Frame-Level Pseudo-Classification for Skeleton-Based Action Recognition

    Sep 28, 2026Shanaka Ramesh Gunasekara, Wanqing Li, Nikalal Kaldera +2Skeleton-Based Action RecognitionMasked Diffusion Models

    Advanced Multimedia Research Lab, University of Wollongong, Australia

  13. BiMoGen: Bidirectional Motion-Text Generation via Unified Masked Discrete Diffusion

    Sep 28, 2026Wanjiang Weng, Yongliang Wu, Xiaofeng Tan +3Masked Diffusion ModelsText-to-Motion Generation

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China · Key Laboratory of New Generation Artificial Intelligence Technology and Its Interdisciplinary Applications (Southeast University), Ministry of Education, Nanjing, China · National University of Singapore +1

  14. TANGO: Watermarking Masked Diffusion Language Models in Token Pairs

    Sep 28, 2026Kasra Arabi, Nir Weinberger, Micah Goldblum +1Diffusion Model WatermarkingMasked Diffusion Models

  15. Low-Confidence Remasking Traps Flexibility: Realizing Arbitrary-Order Potential for Diverse Rollouts in Diffusion LLMs

    Sep 28, 2026Moongyu Jeon, Dongjae Jeon, Bumjun Kim +2Masked Diffusion ModelsDiffusion Language Model Decoding

    Yonsei University · KRAFTON AI · Kookmin University

  16. One Sequence, Many Decodings: CAGenMol-2 Recasts Drug Design as Masked Molecular Inference

    Sep 28, 2026Yanting Li, Enyan Dai, Lei Wang +2Molecular OptimizationMasked Diffusion Models

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · Jinan University, Guangzhou

  17. Simple Diffusion Language Models Are More Effective Few-Step Generators Than Reported

    Sep 27, 2026Hasan Amin, Ming Yin, Rajiv KhannaMasked Diffusion ModelsLanguage Model Generation Evaluation

    Purdue University

  18. Unmask the State: When Does State Adaptation Matter for Masked Diffusion Language Models

    Sep 27, 2026Injin Kong, Sunghwan Choi, Yohan JoMasked Diffusion ModelsDiffusion Language Model Inference

    Graduate School of Data Science, Seoul National University

  19. Schedule optimization for tau-leaping in masked discrete diffusion

    Sep 18, 2026Cecilia Secchi, Giacomo ZanellaMasked Diffusion ModelsDiffusion Sampling

    Bocconi University, Department of Decision Sciences, Milan, Italy. · Bocconi University, Department of Decision Sciences and BIDSA, Milan, Italy.

  20. Parallelism, critical windows, and separations among diffusion language models

    Sep 17, 2026Sitan Chen, Liye WangMasked Diffusion ModelsDiffusion Sampling

    SEAS, Harvard University · Tsinghua University

  21. Zarya: A Hybrid Autoregressive--Masked Diffusion Language Model with Flexible Training and Dual-Mode Inference

    Sep 17, 2026Leonid Sinev, Ilya Koziev, Vladislav LeshchukMasked Diffusion ModelsAutoregressive Diffusion

  22. Representation-based Masked Diffusion Model

    Sep 14, 2026Yangrong Hu, Ding Huang, Xueyu Zhou +1Non-Autoregressive Text GenerationMasked Diffusion Models

    Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China · Department of Applied Mathematics The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China · ByteDance Seed, Beijing, China

  23. EPIC: Explicit Posterior Item Conditioning for Semantic ID Diffusion Recommendation

    Sep 3, 2026Tuan-Binh Tran, Thanh Tam Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen +3Semantic ID RecommendationSequential Recommendation

    College of Engineering and Computer Science VinUniversity Hanoi, Vietnam · School of Information and Communication Technology Griffith University Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia · Department of Computer Science Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark

  24. CARVE: Verified Expansion for Variable-Length Generation in Diffusion Language Models

    Aug 31, 2026Wail Bouhedja, Amr Mohamed, Guokan ShangMasked Diffusion ModelsLLM Inference Acceleration

    1MBZUAI · 2Sorbonne Université · 3Ecole Polytechnique

  25. DiffPDE: Masked Diffusion Language Models as PDE Solver

    Aug 31, 2026Wenxuan Guo, Yuyang Hong, Lubin Fan +4RL for Code GenerationMasked Diffusion Models

    School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · MAIS, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Independent Researcher

  26. Discrete Diffusion Bridges for Spatiotemporally Aligned Image Translation and Generation

    Aug 30, 2026Xing Xie, Jiawei Liu, Shijun Zhou +4Masked Diffusion ModelsImage-to-Image Translation

    State Key Laboratory of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · School of Computing and Data Science, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  27. VGAS: Variance-Reduced Guidance and Adaptive Selection for Training-Free Reward Alignment in Discrete Diffusion

    Aug 27, 2026Kwanyoung KimDiffusion Model AlignmentDiffusion Model Guidance

    Department of AI, GIST

  28. The data geometry of masking diffusion: Certified-optimal schedules via unmasking growth complexity

    Aug 13, 2026Martin J. WainwrightMasked Diffusion ModelsDiffusion Sampling

    Lab for Information and Decision Systems · Statistics and Data Science Center · EECS and Mathematics

  29. Stoicheia: Character-Level Masked Diffusion for Ancient Greek Textual Restoration, Parsing, and Metrical Scansion

    Aug 7, 2026Eric Cullhed, Albin Thörn ClelandMasked Diffusion ModelsDependency Parsing

    Department of Linguistics and Philology · Uppsala University · Sweden +2

  30. Lost in Interpolation: Why Predictive Feedback Fails in Diffusion Language Models

    Aug 6, 2026Lavanya Nigam, Ishaan Bansal, Aryan Sood +2Masked Diffusion ModelsDiffusion Language Model Decoding

    Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India

  31. Masked diffusion enables coherent beat tracking

    Aug 5, 2026Francesco Foscarin, Filip Korzeniowski, Richard VoglMasked Diffusion ModelsMusic Information Retrieval

    Moises AI

  32. MDLMPE: Distribution Aware Positional Encoding for Masked Diffusion Language Models

    Aug 4, 2026Tong Ling, Hang Lei, Feng Xiao +5Rotary Positional EmbeddingsMasked Diffusion Models

    University Chinese Academic of Science · HUJING Digital Media & Entertainment Group · State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, China +1

  33. EchoChange: A Diffusion Language Model with Dual Pass Remasking for Factual Remote Sensing Disaster Change Captioning

    Aug 3, 2026Dongwei Sun, Bowen Yao, Yujie Zhang +3Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingMasked Diffusion Models

    School of Computer Science and Technology and the Ministry of Education Key Lab for Intelligent Networks and Network Security, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 710049, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China · State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100094, China

  34. TongueReenact: Geometry-Anchored Tongue Synthesis for Face Reenactment

    Jul 30, 2026MD Wahiduzzaman Khan, Mingshan Jia, Xiaolin Zhang +2Masked Diffusion Models

    University of Technology Sydney, Australia · Shandong University of Science and Technology, China

  35. From Interface to Inference: Eliciting Any-Order Inference from Any-Order Models

    Jul 29, 2026Seunggeun Kim, Jaeyeon Kim, Taekyun Lee +4Masked Diffusion ModelsDiffusion Language Model Inference

    University of Texas at Austin · Harvard University

  36. PreDiff-LM: Pretrained Discrete Masked Diffusion Language Modeling with Hybrid Attention

    Jul 28, 2026Zhengtao Yao, Runhao Li, Xupeng Chen +12Masked Diffusion ModelsAttention Control in Diffusion Models

    University of Southern California · New York University · Columbia University +4

  37. Multi-Mask Diffusion Language Models for Few-Step Generation

    Jul 22, 2026Sijin Chen, Yinuo Ren, Heyang Zhao +3Masked Diffusion ModelsDiffusion Model Distillation

    ByteDance Seed · Princeton University · Stanford University +2

  38. MotifRole-Diff: Risk-Optimal Role-Aware Corruption for Masked Molecular Graph Diffusion

    Jul 20, 2026Tasfia Nuzhat Ornee, Elias Hossain, Ivan Garibay +1Masked Diffusion ModelsMolecular Graph Generation

    University of Central Florida

  39. One-step lowest-variance selection in a Gaussian random-field model motivated by masked diffusion: Total correlation and a square root collision threshold

    Jul 20, 2026Linjun LiMasked Diffusion ModelsParallel Decoding

    Department of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

  40. Trace-Based On-Policy Distillation for Masked Diffusion Language Models

    Jul 18, 2026Haolin Ren, Ziyang Huang, Chenhao Yuan +2Masked Diffusion ModelsDiffusion Model Distillation

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  41. Induction in Both Directions: A Mechanistic Analysis of In-Context Learning in Masked Diffusion Language Models

    Jul 17, 2026Andy Catruna, Emilian RadoiMasked Diffusion ModelsIn-Context Learning

    National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest · Academy of Romanian Scientists

  42. Adaptive Multi-Step Lookahead Decoding for Diffusion Language Models

    Jul 17, 2026Yingqian Cui, Wei Deng, Lantao Mei +4Masked Diffusion ModelsLanguage Model Decoding

    Michigan State University · Morgan Stanley · IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

  43. Mask-Aware Policy Gradients for Diffusion Language Models

    Jul 16, 2026Haran Raajesh, Kulin Shah, Adam Klivans +1Masked Diffusion ModelsRL for Language Model Reasoning

    Department of Computer Science The University of Texas at Austin

  44. A Continuous-Time Reinforcement Learning Framework for Fine-Tuning Discrete Diffusion Models

    Jul 16, 2026Zikun Zhang, Jiayuan Sheng, David D. Yao +1Masked Diffusion ModelsRL for Language Model Reasoning

    Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027

  45. Discrete Diffusion Models: A Unified Framework from Tokenization to Generation

    Jul 15, 2026Ye Yuan, Weien Li, Rui Song +19Masked Diffusion ModelsDiffusion Model Sampling

    McGill University · University of Cambridge · Mila - Quebec AI Institute +6

  46. Concurrent Image Understanding and Generation: Self-Correcting Coupled Markov Jump Processes

    Jul 14, 2026Minh-Quan Le, Armand Comas, Alexandros Lattas +7Masked Diffusion ModelsMarkov Models

    Google · Stony Brook University · Google DeepMind

  47. Accelerating Masked Diffusion Large Language Models: A Survey of Efficient Inference Techniques

    Jul 14, 2026Daehoon Gwak, Minhyung Lee, Junwoo Park +1Masked Diffusion ModelsInference-Time Scaling

    KAIST AI · Yonsei University

  48. Sticky Jump Diffusions: A Unifying View of Masked, Continuous, and Hybrid Diffusion

    Jul 12, 2026Pascal Jutras-Dubé, Patrick Pynadath, Jeremy Lu +2Masked Diffusion ModelsStochastic Differential Equations

    Department of Computer Science Purdue University · Department of Mathematics Purdue University

  49. MobiDiff: Semantic-Aware Multi-Channel Discrete Diffusion for Human Mobility Data Generation

    Jul 9, 2026Rongchao Xu, Lin Jiang, Dahai Yu +5Masked Diffusion ModelsSynthetic Data Generation

    Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida, USA · Rutgers University Piscataway, New Jersey, USA · University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, California, USA

  50. Tensor-Train Joint Modeling for Few-Step Discrete Diffusion

    Jul 4, 2026Byoungkwon Kim, Minhyuk SungMasked Diffusion ModelsTensor Decomposition

    KAIST

  51. TAG-DLM: Diffusion Language Models for Text-Attributed Graph Learning

    Jun 30, 2026Lingjie Chen, Yuanchen Bei, Haobo Xu +3Masked Diffusion ModelsLink Prediction

    UIUC · VISA

  52. Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-Image: Advancing Masked Discrete Diffusion for High-Resolution Image Synthesis

    Jun 29, 2026Shufan Li, Greg Heinrich, Hanrong Ye +4Masked Diffusion ModelsT2I Diffusion Models

    NVIDIA

  53. Masked Diffusion Decoding as xx-Prediction Flow

    Jun 27, 2026Weitian Wang, Lianlei Shan, Shubham Rai +2Masked Diffusion ModelsDiffusion Language Model Decoding

    Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany · University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China · Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

  54. VGB for Masked Diffusion Model: Efficient Test-time Scaling for Reward Satisfaction and Sample Editing

    Jun 26, 2026Kijung Jeon, Thuy-Duong Vuong, Molei TaoConstrained Generative ModelingMasked Diffusion Models

    Georgia Tech · UCSD

  55. Masked Language Flow Models

    Jun 26, 2026Iskander Azangulov, Kianoosh Ashouritaklimi, Leo Zhang +2Masked Diffusion ModelsInstruction Following

    Department of Statistics, University of Oxford

  56. Speculative Refinement: A Hybrid Autoregressive Diffusion Decoding Strategy and Its Behavior Across Benchmarks

    Jun 25, 2026Aditi Gupta, Neel Mishra, Kushagra Trivedi +1Masked Diffusion ModelsLanguage Model Generation Evaluation

    IIIT Hyderabad, India · Microsoft

  57. Improved Large Language Diffusion Models

    Jun 24, 2026Shen Nie, Qiyang Min, Shaoxuan Xu +7Language Model PretrainingMasked Diffusion Models

    Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China · Beijing Key Laboratory of Research on Large Models and Intelligent Governance · Engineering Research Center of Next-Generation Intelligent Search and Recommendation, MOE +1

  58. Scheduling Thoughts: Learning the Order of Thought in Diffusion Language Models

    Jun 22, 2026Jiawei Xu, Minghui Liu, Aakriti Agrawal +2Masked Diffusion ModelsLanguage Model Decoding

    University of Maryland, College Park · University of California, Los Angeles.

  59. Walk fast but be careful: Understanding Parallel Sampling in Masked Diffusion

    Jun 22, 2026Vansh Bansal, Cholyeon Cho, Syamantak Kumar +2Masked Diffusion ModelsDiffusion Sampling

    UT Austin SDS · UT Austin CS · UT Austin ECE

  60. Recursive Scaling in Masked Diffusion Models

    Jun 16, 2026Alba Carballo-Castro, Julianna Piskorz, Paulius Rauba +2Masked Diffusion ModelsDiffusion Model Sampling

    LTS4, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland · University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.