{
  "id": "2610.03665",
  "title": "Pivot-SD: Efficient Self-Distillation for Masked Diffusion Language Models",
  "authors": "Seo Hyun Kim, Sunwoo Hong, Younwoo Choi, Chen-Hao Chao, Se-Young Yun, Rahul G. Krishnan",
  "first_public": "2026-10-02",
  "lens": [
    "beyond-sequential"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "discrete-token"
  ],
  "training": [
    "self-distillation"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "capability",
    "efficiency"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language",
    "symbolic"
  ],
  "summary": "Selects token commitments that most reduce uncertainty over the remaining output. Self-distillation reinforces these pivots from successful diffusion trajectories and discourages selected pivots from failed ones, rather than supervising every token equally.",
  "computation": [
    "diffusion"
  ],
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2610.03665",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.03665",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-10-18",
  "added_at": "2026-10-18",
  "author_names": [
    "Seo Hyun Kim",
    "Sunwoo Hong",
    "Younwoo Choi",
    "Chen-Hao Chao",
    "Se-Young Yun",
    "Rahul G. Krishnan"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2026-10-02",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.03665/index.md",
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