Discrete Beckmann Transport Models Target One-Step Language Generation
A new arXiv preprint introduces discrete Beckmann transport models, a framework for language modeling and reasoning that avoids the multi-step sampling usually required by discrete diffusion and flow approaches. The authors note that existing methods compress sampling steps only by distilling a pretrained autoregressive teacher, which limits the student to the teacher's performance. Their approach instead aims to generate text in a single step without relying on that distillation ceiling.