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Register Tokens for Bounded-State Reasoning in Diffusion Language Models

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 14, 2026 · UTC

Masked diffusion language models (dLLMs) generate text by iteratively denoising masked tokens with bidirectional attention. Extending reasoning across generation chunks normally requires keeping earlier generated text in context. We ask whether a dLLM can instead continue reasoning after that text is cleared, using only a fixed-size carried state. We implement this state as a small number of register tokens: dedicated fixed-position tokens whose continuous hidden states are trained to carry reasoning progress across generation chunks. We post-train dLLMs to decode a chunk of text, clear it whi

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