arxivcs.CLcs.LG2026-07-17
Adaptive Multi-Step Lookahead Decoding for Diffusion Language Models
Yingqian Cui, Wei Deng, Lantao Mei, Hang Li, Charu C. Aggarwal, Hui Liu, et al.
Masked diffusion language models (DLMs) enable parallel text generation by iteratively refining masked tokens, offering a promising alternative to autoregressive decoding. Recent lookahead-based decoding methods improve the accuracy--efficiency trade-off by exploring future decod…