# What Makes a Good Unmasking Policy? A Controlled Study of Learned Unmasking in Diffusion Language Models > Source: > Published: 2026-10-23 07:00:01+00:00 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