TIME-ANNEALED PERTURBATION SAMPLING: DIVERSE GENERATION FOR DIFFUSION LANGUAGE MODELS
Unlocking Diverse Generation in Diffusion Language Models
Diffusion Language Models (Diffusion-LMs) introduce a temporal dimension to text generation, but leveraging it for diverse semantic exploration has been a challenge. Our analysis of 'Time-Annealed Perturbation Sampling' (TAPS) reveals a powerful, training-free strategy to overcome this.
Executive Impact & Key Findings
TAPS significantly enhances output diversity across creative writing and reasoning tasks without compromising generation quality or instruction adherence, showcasing the temporal division of labor within Diffusion-LMs.
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Semantic Branching
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TAPS introduces time-annealed perturbations to conditioning signals in Diffusion-LMs, promoting semantic branching in early denoising steps while preserving fluency and adherence later on. This training-free approach enhances diversity without quality compromise.
Evaluated on creative writing (WritingPrompts, NoveltyBench), reasoning (GSM8K), and instruction following (Arena-Hard-Auto), TAPS consistently outperforms baselines in diversity metrics like Sent-BERT and EAD, maintaining or improving generation quality across LLaDA-8B-Instruct and TraDo-8B-Instruct backbones.
TAPS achieves substantial gains in semantic diversity, especially in creative tasks. On GSM8K, it improves majority-vote accuracy at higher temperatures by enabling broader exploration of reasoning paths. Ablations confirm early-stage, time-decaying noise is crucial for semantic branching.
Enterprise Process Flow
Prompt Embedding
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Early Denoising (Perturb & Rescale)
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Mid Denoising (Anneal & Refine)
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Late Denoising (Fluency & Adherence)
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Diverse Generation
+36%
Average increase in Sent-BERT Diversity
| Method | Diversity (Sent-BERT ↑) | Quality (GPT-4) |
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| Base Model | 25.80 | Comparable |
| Top-p | 24.30 | Comparable |
| Top-k | 23.38 | Comparable |
| Min-p | 22.30 | Favorable |
| Diverse Prompt | 19.84 | Degraded |
| TAPS (Ours) | 36.04 | Improved (Creative) |
Enhanced Reasoning Exploration (GSM8K)
Case: Mathematical Word Problem
Problem: Lloyd's chickens produce 252 eggs per day. He sells eggs at $2 per dozen. How much money does he make in one week?
TAPS Outcome (Accuracy 100%): TAPS generated multiple valid reasoning paths, showing diverse intermediate steps while consistently arriving at the correct answer. This broad exploration of solutions is crucial for aggregation-based evaluation.
Base Model Outcome (Accuracy 60%): The Base Model produced repetitive or incorrect reasoning paths, often collapsing into erroneous patterns and demonstrating less robust problem-solving under repeated sampling.
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