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DACA-GRPO: Denoising-Aware Credit Assignment for Reinforcement Learning in Diffusion Language Models.

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Researchers propose DACA-GRPO, a reinforcement learning method for diffusion language models that assigns credit to denoising steps rather than treating them all as equally important. The method targets biased, high-variance likelihood estimates in existing RL approaches for diffusion models.

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“Diffusion large language models are a compelling alternative to autoregressive models, yet existing RL methods for diffusion treat all denoising steps as equally important and rely on biased, high-variance likelihood estimates.”
Apple Machine Learning Research, 16 Sept 2026, 00:00.

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