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arXiv cs.LG AI Research Apr 22

Discrete Tilt Matching

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Researchers introduce Discrete Tilt Matching (DTM), a new likelihood-free method for fine-tuning masked diffusion large language models (dLLMs). The method addresses the intractability of sequence-level marginal likelihoods by using state-level matching under reward tilting. Experimental results show significant performance gains on tasks like Sudoku and Countdown when fine-tuning the LLaDA-8B-Instruct model.

Why it matters Addressing sequence-level intractability through state-level matching may unlock superior reasoning capabilities in masked diffusion-based language models.
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#diffusion models #llm fine-tuning #rlhf #masked language models

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