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What Makes a Good Unmasking Policy? A Controlled Study of Learned Unmasking in Diffusion Language Models

A controlled study of learned unmasking policies in masked diffusion language models finds that the policies, which decide which token predictions to commit during parallel generation, improve the speed-accuracy trade-off but vary in supervision, inputs, and capacity, leaving unclear which design choices drive performance. The research frames supervised policies as the basis for isolating those variables.

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Masked diffusion language models generate tokens in parallel, but their efficiency depends on which predictions are committed. Learned unmasking policies improve the speed--accuracy trade-off, yet differ in supervision, inputs, and capacity, obscuring which choices matter. We view supervised policie

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