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Optimizing Decoding Paths in Masked Diffusion Models by Quantifying Uncertainty

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Main Authors:	Chen, Ziyu, Jiang, Xinbei, Sun, Peng, Lin, Tao
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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