{
  "id": "2610.26040",
  "title": "Balance-Aware Pivot Selection for Parallel Diffusion LLM Decoding",
  "authors": "Yejin Lee, Hyundong Jin, Yo-Sub Han",
  "first_public": "2026-10-19",
  "added_at": "2026-10-22",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2610.26040",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.26040",
  "html_url": "https://arxiv.org/html/2610.26040v1",
  "lens": [
    "beyond-sequential"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "discrete-token"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "diffusion",
    "parallel"
  ],
  "training": [
    "inference-only"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "efficiency"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical",
    "formal"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language",
    "symbolic"
  ],
  "summary": "Selects confident tokens near the centers of masked spans, allowing diffusion language models to fill separate spans in parallel. Studies how this ordering trades generation quality against decoding speed on math, code and instruction-following tasks.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature review, 2026-10-22",
  "author_names": [
    "Yejin Lee",
    "Hyundong Jin",
    "Yo-Sub Han"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2026-10-19",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.26040/index.md",
  "bibtex_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.26040/citation.bib",
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  "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.26040"
}