Forward-Free Diffusion Language Models with BPTT-Free Looped Refinement

arXiv:2606.08357 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-06-06 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-06-06

Updated: 2026-08-27

Terminology

• Benchmark — 20× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Diffusion Model — 18× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Diffusion Models — 15× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Accuracy — 10× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 6× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Transformer — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Iterative Refinement — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Embeddings — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Block Diffusion — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decode — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Modeling — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation Studies — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Attention Mechanism — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Distribution Matching — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Flow Matching — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Generative Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• KV cache — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Latent Diffusion Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Latent Diffusion Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Speculative Decoding — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Two-stage training — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verifier — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Nemotron 3 Super: Open, Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Model for Agentic Reasoning
• Batch Stationary Distribution Estimation
• Corrective Diffusion Language Models

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