DFlow: Enabling Verifier Information Flow in Block Diffusion Speculative Decoding

arXiv:2609.06498 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-06 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-06

Updated: 2026-09-06

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Terminology

• Verifier — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Block Diffusion — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Speculative Decoding — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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