arXiv:2606.02955v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion large language models promise parallel token generation, yet inference remains bottlenecked by deciding which masked tokens can be safely committed together. Fast-dLLM addressed this with KV caching and confidence-guided parallel decoding, but its decoding theory uses a homogeneous high-confidence assumption that effectively reduces each candidate set to its weakest selected token. We argue that this leaves speed on the table because real decoding steps exhibit heterogeneous confidence profiles. We propose \textbf{Fast-dLLM++}, a training-free extension that introduces \emph{Fr'{e}chet profile decoding}: selecting parallel commit sets from the full sorted confidence profile rather than a single worst-case confidence. The resulting rule is a heterogeneous-confidence generalization of Fast-dLLM's factor selector and it recovers the previous rule exactly in the equal-confidence case and adds a provable \emph{heterogeneity bonus} when the selected tokens have uneven confidences. Fast-dLLM++ leaves the model, diffusion process, and cache implementation entirely unchanged, making it a drop-in replacement for existing Fast-dLLM decoding. Experiments on GSM8K, MATH, HumanEval, and MBPP with the LLaDA-8B model show that the theoretical improvement translates directly into empirical gains: profile-aware selection improves the accuracy--throughput frontier by exploiting safe parallelism that weakest-token rules miss, achieving up to 37% higher throughput at comparable accuracy. Our anonymous code release is at https://github.com/Ringo-Star/FastdLLM_plusplus.
Fast-dLLM++: Fr\'{e}chet Profile Decoding for Faster Diffusion LLM Inference
Researchers have developed Fast-dLLM++, a training-free extension to diffusion large language models that accelerates inference by selecting parallel token commit sets based on the full sorted confidence profile rather than a single worst-case confidence. The method, which introduces Fréchet profile decoding, recovers the previous Fast-dLLM rule in equal-confidence cases and adds a provable heterogeneity bonus when tokens have uneven confidences. Experiments with the LLaDA-8B model on GSM8K, MATH, HumanEval, and MBPP benchmarks demonstrate up to 37% higher throughput at comparable accuracy, establishing a new accuracy–throughput frontier for diffusion LLM inference.
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