Gumbel Distillation for Parallel Text Generation

תקציר מקורי באנגליתarXiv:2603.22216v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The slow, sequential nature of autoregressive (AR) language models has driven the adoption of parallel decoding methods. However, these non-AR models often sacrifice generation quality as they struggle to model the complex joint distribution of token sequences. To narrow this performance gap, we introduce Gumbel Distillation, a novel distillation technique that enables parallel decoders to learn this distribution effectively. Our method leverages the Gumbel-Max trick to create a deterministic mapping from a latent Gumbel noise space to the output tokens of a high-performing AR teacher. As a model-agnostic technique, Gumbel Distillation seamlessly integrates with diverse parallel decoding architectures, including MDLM and BD3-LM. Experimen