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LADDER: Graph-Guided Diffusion Language Models for Efficient Multi-Hop Reasoning

Senlei Zhang, Linhao Luo, Qian-Wen Zhang, Siyu An, Junnan Dong, Shuhao Zhang, Xing Sun

Triggers graph retrieval when new entities become identifiable in a partially denoised draft, then uses graph propagation to provide multi-hop evidence for subsequent updates. This combines retrieval with parallel textual reasoning rather than removing the text trace.

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arXiv:2609.24346 · Initial submission: 2026-09-21

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Alternative generation methods — Change how intermediate steps are generated, revised, or searched—for example, by refining several steps in parallel. These are related approaches: some still produce written chains of thought.

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