{
  "id": "2610.13330",
  "title": "Masked Diffusion Language Agents for Tool-Integrated Chemical Reasoning",
  "authors": "Mengdi Liu, Chenghao Jia, Hong Chang, Shiguang Shan",
  "first_public": "2026-10-09",
  "lens": [
    "beyond-sequential"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "discrete-token"
  ],
  "training": [
    "supervised",
    "reinforcement-learning"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "capability",
    "efficiency"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language",
    "symbolic"
  ],
  "summary": "ChemDiffAgent denoises interleaved textual reasoning and tool-use trajectories, letting tool decisions depend on context across the trajectory. A chemistry benchmark and matched-budget comparisons test this alternative to left-to-right agent generation.",
  "computation": [
    "diffusion",
    "parallel"
  ],
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2610.13330",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.13330",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-10-18",
  "added_at": "2026-10-18",
  "author_names": [
    "Mengdi Liu",
    "Chenghao Jia",
    "Hong Chang",
    "Shiguang Shan"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2026-10-09",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.13330/index.md",
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