{
  "id": "2609.36452",
  "title": "Reliable Parallel Decoding in Masked Diffusion Language Models",
  "authors": "Zhenghao He, Bohan Liu, Guangzhi Xiong, Aidong Zhang",
  "first_public": "2026-09-29",
  "lens": [
    "analysis",
    "beyond-sequential"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "discrete-token",
    "hidden-state"
  ],
  "training": [
    "inference-only"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "efficiency",
    "evaluation",
    "limitations"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language",
    "symbolic"
  ],
  "summary": "Studies when simultaneously committing several predicted tokens breaks their reasoning dependencies. RPD combines stability across final layers with confidence and uncertainty in preceding positions to defer unsupported predictions while retaining parallel text generation.",
  "computation": [
    "diffusion",
    "parallel"
  ],
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2609.36452",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.36452",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-10-18",
  "added_at": "2026-10-18",
  "author_names": [
    "Zhenghao He",
    "Bohan Liu",
    "Guangzhi Xiong",
    "Aidong Zhang"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2026-09-29",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2609.36452/index.md",
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