Dueun Kim
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The Confidence Shortcut: A Reasoning Failure Mode of Masked Diffusion Models
The paper argues that using confidence-based decoding, which is optimized via training mask alignment, fundamentally misaligns Masked Diffusion Models (MDMs) from the logical flow needed for complex reasoning, leading to catastrophic failures on challenging inputs.
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