Length-Adaptive Decoding for Masked Diffusion Machine Translation
Machine translation tests masked diffusion language models (dLLMs) because every source token must be rendered faithfully, while fixed canvas decoding must choose target length before denoising. Existing masked diffusion decoding work mainly studies token unmasking order, leaving this length decision under-explored despite its direct effect on coverage and redundancy. We introduce Entropy-Valley (EV), a training-free length selector that scores candidate target canvases by mean predictive entropy from all-mask forward passes and selects the canvas the backbone is most prepared to fill. Relative to a baseline using training corpus length statistics, EV recovers 64.9%, 65.3%, and 33.0% of t...
| Authors | Yan Zhan, Mengkai Hou, Wanting Zhang et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 23 August 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 23 August 2026 |
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