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Jesse N. Clark

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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Outcome-Routed Distillation and Reinforcement Learning for Diffusion Language Models

On-policy distillation provides dense supervision on the student's own samples, but its targets still come from the teacher. Verifier reinforcement learning (RL) instead uses an outcome signal, but it provides no direct constraint on capabilities outside the verifier. Combining the two is difficult for diffusion langua...

Wen-Tao Lu, Tian-Yu Zhu, Jesse N. Clark · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Context-Tower Conversion Preserves Generation While Freezing Retains Knowledge: Low-Budget AR-to-Diffusion Conversion of MoE LLMs

Converting a pretrained autoregressive (AR) model to a diffusion language model (dLLM) enables parallel generation without pretraining a new model. Published conversion methods differ by roughly three orders of magnitude in training data and have not been compared under a common protocol. We compare two conversions of...

Wen-Tao Lu, Tian-Yu Zhu, Jesse N. Clark · 0 citations

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