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DTCA assigns credit across diffusion denoising

DTCA trains LLaDA-8B-Instruct with reinforcement learning by estimating how committed tokens help refine the positions that remain masked. Its central signal is the increase in prediction confidence after a token commitment; the method groups these estimates by part of speech (POS), then uses the resulting weights to select denoising steps and scale token-level learning signals.

The problem is specific to diffusion language models: several tokens can be committed in parallel, and each commitment can change predictions at other masked positions. A final-answer reward does not reveal which commitments helped.…