{
  "id": "2610.15097",
  "title": "Anchors Enhance Controllability and Reasoning of Diffusion Language Models",
  "authors": "Feiyu Qu, Zheng Huang, Andrea Zanette",
  "first_public": "2026-10-10",
  "lens": [
    "beyond-sequential"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "discrete-token"
  ],
  "training": [
    "reinforcement-learning"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "controllability",
    "capability"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language",
    "symbolic"
  ],
  "summary": "Trains an anchor generator to choose a short text fragment and its position in a frozen diffusion model's output. These visible control tokens guide subsequent denoising, with rewards for correct answers and satisfied constraints.",
  "computation": [
    "diffusion"
  ],
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2610.15097",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.15097",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-10-18",
  "added_at": "2026-10-18",
  "author_names": [
    "Feiyu Qu",
    "Zheng Huang",
    "Andrea Zanette"
  ],
  "record_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.15097/",
  "legacy_record_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/#paper-2610-15097",
  "citation_date": "2026-10-10",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.15097/index.md",
  "bibtex_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.15097/citation.bib",
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