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arXiv — cs.AI preprintsInternational9 October 2026

Test-Time Scaling with Diffusion Language Models via Reward-Guided Stitching

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arXiv:2602.22871v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reasoning with large language models often benefits from generating multiple chains-of-thought, but existing aggregation strategies are typically trajectory-level (e.g., selecting the best trace or voting on the final answer), discarding useful intermediate work from partial or "nearly correct" attempts. We propose Stitching Noisy Diffusion Thoughts, a self-consistency framework that turns cheap diffusion-sampled reasoning into a reusable pool of step-level candidates. Given a problem, we (i) sample many diverse, low-cost reasoning traj
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