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Learning When to Commit: Schedule Distillation for Fast Diffusion Language Models
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Researchers propose dSpark, a schedule distillation framework that learns which tokens to generate first in diffusion language models to speed up parallel decoding.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers optimizing inference speed in diffusion-based language models, particularly for math reasoning and code generation workloads.
- Watch out
- Results shown on specific model sizes and tasks; generalization to other domains and model scales remains unclear from this abstract.
- llm
- language model
- distill
- token
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