Supportive Token Revealing for Fast Diffusion Language Model Decoding
Quick Answer
This paper shows that The AXON module enhances discrete diffusion language models by optimizing the quality-latency trade-off during decoding.
Quick Take
It selectively reveals confident tokens to support uncertain ones, improving performance on reasoning and code-generation benchmarks while reducing function evaluations. This approach maintains or enhances accuracy across multiple models.
Key Points
- AXON is a training-free module for parallel decoding in diffusion language models.
- It shifts focus from safe token reveals to those that support later denoising.
- Experiments show improved quality-latency trade-off on reasoning and code-generation tasks.
- AXON reduces function evaluations while maintaining or improving accuracy.
- Applicable to existing parallel decoding strategies without replacing the base decoder.
Paper Resources
Source Excerpt
From the original publisher, up to about 700 charactersarXiv:2606. 04236v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Discrete diffusion language models can generate text efficiently by updating multiple masked positions in parallel, but this parallelism introduces a quality-latency trade-off. Aggressive decoding may commit mutually dependent tokens too early, while conservative decoding requires many denoising steps. Existing methods address this tension by deciding which tokens are safe to reveal using confidence or dependency criteria.
However, avoiding unsafe commits does not necessarily make the remaining masked sequence easy to decode, since uncertain tokens may depend on masked tokens, creating a bottleneck for denoising steps. …
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