Pivot-SD: Efficient Self-Distillation for Masked Diffusion Language Models

arXiv:2610.03665 · cs.LG, cs.CL · Submitted 2026-10-02 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-10-02

Updated: 2026-10-02

Terminology

• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Self-distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes

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