{
  "id": "2610.29255",
  "title": "Hierarchical Masked Diffusion Language Models",
  "authors": "Parul Gupta, Satwik, Avni Aggarwal, Bhavesh Gurnani, Arnab Kumar Mondal, Dinesh Khandelwal, Dinesh Garg, Parag Singla",
  "first_public": "2026-10-21",
  "added_at": "2026-10-22",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2610.29255",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.29255",
  "html_url": "https://arxiv.org/html/2610.29255v1",
  "lens": [
    "beyond-sequential"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "discrete-token"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "diffusion",
    "parallel",
    "hierarchical"
  ],
  "training": [
    "pretraining",
    "supervised"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "architecture",
    "capability",
    "controllability"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical",
    "formal"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language",
    "symbolic"
  ],
  "summary": "Predicts which masked positions should be filled first, then predicts their tokens with a hierarchy-aware diffusion model. Tests this ordering on text generation and Sudoku, where earlier solved cells can help determine later ones.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature review, 2026-10-22",
  "author_names": [
    "Parul Gupta",
    "Satwik",
    "Avni Aggarwal",
    "Bhavesh Gurnani",
    "Arnab Kumar Mondal",
    "Dinesh Khandelwal",
    "Dinesh Garg",
    "Parag Singla"
  ],
  "record_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.29255/",
  "legacy_record_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/#paper-2610-29255",
  "citation_date": "2026-10-21",
  "json_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.29255/record.json",
  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.29255/index.md",
  "bibtex_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.29255/citation.bib",
  "csl_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.29255/citation.csl.json",
  "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.29255"
}