Heyang Zhao

Multi-Mask Diffusion Language Models for Few-Step Generation

Sijin Chen, Yinuo Ren, Heyang Zhao, Ziheng Cheng, Quanquan Gu, Lexing Ying

Masked diffusion models (MDMs) are a promising family of language generators, but achieving high-quality few-step generation remains challenging. In MDMs, all forward trajectories collapse to a single fully masked state, leaving no terminal entropy for consistency-style few-step…Read more