{
  "id": "2609.24346",
  "title": "LADDER: Graph-Guided Diffusion Language Models for Efficient Multi-Hop Reasoning",
  "authors": "Senlei Zhang, Linhao Luo, Qian-Wen Zhang, Siyu An, Junnan Dong, Shuhao Zhang, Xing Sun",
  "first_public": "2026-09-21",
  "lens": [
    "beyond-sequential"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "discrete-token"
  ],
  "training": [
    "supervised"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "capability",
    "efficiency"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language"
  ],
  "summary": "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.",
  "computation": [
    "diffusion",
    "parallel"
  ],
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2609.24346",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.24346",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-10-18",
  "added_at": "2026-10-18",
  "author_names": [
    "Senlei Zhang",
    "Linhao Luo",
    "Qian-Wen Zhang",
    "Siyu An",
    "Junnan Dong",
    "Shuhao Zhang",
    "Xing Sun"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2026-09-21",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2609.24346/index.md",
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