Unified Energy for Invariant and Independent Decoding in Diffusion Language Models

Method and contribution

Combines energy corrections for dependency and invariance in diffusion decoding.

Extends the contemporary energy-corrected diffusion direction with a unified treatment of decoding errors.

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Energy-based text generation: residual models, resampling and diffusion →

Citation

Yuchen Yan, Minkai Xu, Zaiquan Yang, Yatao Bian. Unified Energy for Invariant and Independent Decoding in Diffusion Language Models. arXiv:2606.09159.

@misc{unifiedenergy,
  title = {{Unified Energy for Invariant and Independent Decoding in Diffusion Language Models}},
  author = {Yan, Yuchen and Xu, Minkai and Yang, Zaiquan and Bian, Yatao},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/html/2606.09159v1},
  eprint = {2606.09159},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv}
}