{
  "id": "2611.07845",
  "title": "Masked diffusion as random sequential adsorption: an exactly solvable model for parallel decoding",
  "authors": "Adrian Baule",
  "first_public": "2026-11-05",
  "added_at": "2026-11-09",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2611.07845",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.07845",
  "html_url": "https://arxiv.org/html/2611.07845v1",
  "lens": [
    "beyond-sequential",
    "analysis"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "discrete-token"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "diffusion",
    "parallel"
  ],
  "training": [
    "analysis-only"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "theory",
    "efficiency",
    "limitations"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "formal"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language",
    "symbolic"
  ],
  "summary": "Derives the error from filling several masked positions independently in an exactly solvable Markov-chain model. Uses the dependence between tokens to calculate decoding schedules that reduce this error.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature review, 2026-11-09",
  "author_names": [
    "Adrian Baule"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2026-11-05",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2611.07845/index.md",
  "bibtex_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2611.07845/citation.bib",
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  "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2611.07845"
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