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  "id": "2610.25932",
  "title": "Keep the Lineages Alive: Diversity-Preserving SMC for Diffusion LLM Decoding",
  "authors": "Minoo Ahmadi, Seyedarmin Azizi, Mehdi Kamal, Massoud Pedram",
  "first_public": "2026-10-19",
  "added_at": "2026-10-22",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2610.25932",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.25932",
  "html_url": "https://arxiv.org/html/2610.25932v1",
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  "computation": [
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    "search"
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  "questions": [
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    "evaluation"
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    "formal"
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  "modality": [
    "language",
    "symbolic"
  ],
  "summary": "Changes resampling in diffusion-model search to preserve more distinct candidate histories, combining unequal-weight resampling with a floor on low weights. Tests the effect on candidate coverage and final-answer accuracy under several answer-selection rules.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature review, 2026-10-22",
  "author_names": [
    "Minoo Ahmadi",
    "Seyedarmin Azizi",
    "Mehdi Kamal",
    "Massoud Pedram"
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  "citation_date": "2026-10-19",
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  "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.25932"
}