{
  "id": "2611.04948",
  "title": "PATTS: Parallel-Aware Test-Time Scaling for Thought-Image Generation in Multimodal Discrete Diffusion LLMs",
  "authors": "Yasong Dai, Zeeshan Hayder, David Ahmedt-Aristizabal, Hongdong Li",
  "first_public": "2026-11-03",
  "added_at": "2026-11-09",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2611.04948",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.04948",
  "html_url": "https://arxiv.org/html/2611.04948v1",
  "lens": [
    "beyond-sequential"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "discrete-token"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "diffusion",
    "parallel",
    "search"
  ],
  "training": [
    "inference-only"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "efficiency",
    "capability",
    "controllability"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "multimodal",
    "vision"
  ],
  "summary": "Ranks and prunes parallel thought–image diffusion trajectories using their stability, uncertainty and text–image agreement. An external verifier contributes more once intermediate previews become reliable.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature review, 2026-11-09",
  "author_names": [
    "Yasong Dai",
    "Zeeshan Hayder",
    "David Ahmedt-Aristizabal",
    "Hongdong Li"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2026-11-03",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2611.04948/index.md",
  "bibtex_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2611.04948/citation.bib",
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  "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2611.04948"
}