arxivcs.CLcs.AIcs.LG2026-07-17
Induction in Both Directions: A Mechanistic Analysis of In-Context Learning in Masked Diffusion Language Models
While the internal mechanisms of autoregressive (AR) transformers have been studied extensively, much less is known about diffusion language models (DLMs), an emerging alternative that generates text by iterative denoising. In this work, we study how DLMs implement induction, a m…