# Breaking the Factorization Barrier in Diffusion Language Models

Ian Li, Zilei Shao, Benjie Wang, Rose Yu, Guy Van den Broeck, Anji Liu. ICML 2026 (2026).

CoDD composes factorized diffusion predictions with a tractable probabilistic-circuit prior to model joint token dependencies.

Shares structured generation’s separation of parallel neural scoring from joint probabilistic inference.

[Original paper](https://proceedings.mlr.press/v306/li26fd.html)

## Citation

```bibtex
@inproceedings{li2026factorization,
  title = {{Breaking the Factorization Barrier in Diffusion Language Models}},
  author = {Li, Ian and Shao, Zilei and Wang, Benjie and Yu, Rose and Van den Broeck, Guy and Liu, Anji},
  year = {2026},
  booktitle = {ICML 2026},
  url = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v306/li26fd.html},
  eprint = {2603.00045},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv}
}
```