A Survey on Discrete Diffusion Models
Published in Survey · manuscript in preparation, 2026
Role: contributing author · Status: in progress.
A comprehensive review of discrete diffusion models: their formulation and training objectives (masked, uniform, and absorbing-state processes), the theory relating them to continuous diffusion, and their growing use across language modeling, biological sequence design, and combinatorial optimization.
Recommended citation: Yonghan Yang, et al. A Survey on Discrete Diffusion Models. Manuscript in preparation, 2026.