Unlocking Prompt Infilling Capability for Diffusion Language Models

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Researchers unlock prompt infilling capability for diffusion language models by extending full-sequence masking during supervised fine-tuning

advanced Published 7 Apr 2026
Action Steps
  1. Apply full-sequence masking to both prompts and responses during supervised fine-tuning
  2. Extend the current supervised fine-tuning convention to unlock prompt infilling capability
  3. Evaluate the performance of the model on infilling tasks to measure its effectiveness
Who Needs to Know This

NLP researchers and AI engineers on a team can benefit from this research as it enables more flexible and effective text generation capabilities, and can be applied to various language modeling tasks

Key Insight

💡 Extending full-sequence masking during supervised fine-tuning can unlock prompt infilling capability for diffusion language models

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💡 Unlock prompt infilling for diffusion language models with full-sequence masking!
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