Towards Efficient Reasoning: Learning Causal Shortcuts for Diffusion Language Models
Extracts reasoning-guiding token chains and prioritizes them during diffusion-model training to improve denoising speed and accuracy. This is a related text-generating approach, not reasoning without a written trace.
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arXiv:2609.28272 · Initial submission: 2026-09-23
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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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