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Fast-dLLM++: Frรฉchet Profile Decoding for Faster Diffusion LLM Inference
June 01, 2026 ยท Grace Period ยท ๐ ICML 2026
Authors
Siva Rajesh Kasa, Yasong Dai, Sumit Negi, Hongdong Li
arXiv ID
2606.02955
Category
cs.CL: Computation & Language
Cross-listed
cs.AI,
cs.LG
Citations
0
Venue
ICML 2026
Abstract
Diffusion large language models promise parallel token generation, yet inference remains bottlenecked by deciding which masked tokens can be safely committed together. Fast-dLLM addressed this with KV caching and confidence-guided parallel decoding, but its decoding theory uses a homogeneous high-confidence assumption that effectively reduces each candidate set to its weakest selected token. We argue that this leaves speed on the table because real decoding steps exhibit heterogeneous confidence profiles. We propose \textbf{Fast-dLLM++}, a training-free extension that introduces \emph{Frรฉchet profile decoding}: selecting parallel commit sets from the full sorted confidence profile rather than a single worst-case confidence. The resulting rule is a heterogeneous-confidence generalization of Fast-dLLM's factor selector and it recovers the previous rule exactly in the equal-confidence case and adds a provable \emph{heterogeneity bonus} when the selected tokens have uneven confidences. Fast-dLLM++ leaves the model, diffusion process, and cache implementation entirely unchanged, making it a drop-in replacement for existing Fast-dLLM decoding. Experiments on GSM8K, MATH, HumanEval, and MBPP with the LLaDA-8B model show that the theoretical improvement translates directly into empirical gains: profile-aware selection improves the accuracy--throughput frontier by exploiting safe parallelism that weakest-token rules miss, achieving up to 37\% higher throughput at comparable accuracy. Our anonymous code release is at https://github.com/Ringo-Star/FastdLLM_plusplus.
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