Cord: Confidence-Anchored Order Residual Decoding for Masked Diffusion Language Models
Learns which position a diffusion language model should reveal next while keeping the model fixed. A small policy adjusts confidence-based decoding to favor local continuation, distant starting points, or filling gaps, using whole-answer rewards from reasoning and code tasks.
First public: · Added to this list: November 2, 2026
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Alternative generation methods — Change how intermediate steps are generated, revised, or searched—for example, by refining several steps in parallel. Some produce written chains of thought.