% Key papers for Masked diffusion language model decoding (scime atlas, https://atlas.scime.ai). Authors are not included: add them from the paper pages.

@inproceedings{neurips2024_diffusion_74555,
  title = {{Diffusion Forcing: Next-token Prediction Meets Full-Sequence Diffusion}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/93029},
}

@inproceedings{iclr2022_step_31306,
  title = {{Step-unrolled Denoising Autoencoders for Text Generation}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2022},
  url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2022/poster/6942},
}

@inproceedings{icml2025_peptune_46683,
  title = {{PepTune: De Novo Generation of Therapeutic Peptides with Multi-Objective-Guided Discrete Diffusion}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/45889},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2023_likelihood_68873,
  title = {{Likelihood-Based Diffusion Language Models}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2023/poster/70985},
}

@inproceedings{iclr2023_tailoring_32684,
  title = {{Tailoring Language Generation Models under Total Variation Distance}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2023/poster/11834},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2025_diffusion_77655,
  title = {{Diffusion Beats Autoregressive in Data-Constrained Settings}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=W5Ht05jF4c},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2025_theoretical_78487,
  title = {{Theoretical Benefit and Limitation of Diffusion Language Model}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=fGBCRZQVse},
}

@inproceedings{iclr2025_efficient_81867,
  title = {{Efficient Perplexity Bound and Ratio Matching in Discrete Diffusion Language Models}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2025/poster/29916},
}

@inproceedings{iclr2025_scaling_82427,
  title = {{Scaling up Masked Diffusion Models on Text}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2025/poster/29366},
}

@inproceedings{iclr2025_scaling_83148,
  title = {{Scaling Diffusion Language Models via Adaptation from Autoregressive Models}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2025/poster/28659},
}

@inproceedings{iclr2025_energy_83686,
  title = {{Energy-Based Diffusion Language Models for Text Generation}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2025/poster/28133},
}

@inproceedings{aaai2026_mdiff4str_100523,
  title = {{MDiff4STR: Mask Diffusion Model for Scene Text Recognition}},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/37370},
}

@inproceedings{aaai2026_d3tom_106773,
  title = {{D3ToM: Decider-Guided Dynamic Token Merging for Accelerating Diffusion MLLMs}},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/39080},
}

@inproceedings{icml2025_large_46190,
  title = {{Large Language Models to Diffusion Finetuning}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/46370},
}

@inproceedings{icml2025_the_46335,
  title = {{The Diffusion Duality}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/46226},
}

@inproceedings{icml2025_impact_46374,
  title = {{IMPACT: Iterative Mask-based Parallel Decoding for Text-to-Audio Generation with Diffusion Modeling}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/46189},
}

@inproceedings{icml2025_accelerated_46455,
  title = {{Accelerated Diffusion Models via Speculative Sampling}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/46111},
}

@inproceedings{icml2025_generalized_48763,
  title = {{Generalized Interpolating Discrete Diffusion}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/43859},
}

@inproceedings{icml2026_improving_49313,
  title = {{Improving Sampling for Masked Diffusion Models via Information Gain}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=1HPTFpwktA},
}

@inproceedings{icml2026_consistent_49824,
  title = {{Consistent Diffusion Language Models}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=64HmKFCaq6},
}

@inproceedings{icml2026_unifying_50245,
  title = {{Unifying Masked Diffusion Models with Various Generation Orders and Beyond}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=ATpOQt9VVd},
}

@inproceedings{icml2026_from_50447,
  title = {{From Bits to Rounds: Parallel Decoding with Exploration for Diffusion Language Models}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=CTrA4eNQfv},
}

@inproceedings{icml2026_plan_50556,
  title = {{Plan for Speed: Dilated Scheduling for Masked Diffusion Language Models}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=DbzAsMRNhy},
}