Diffusion Large Language Models for Visual Speech Recognition
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arXiv:2605.28456v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Existing Visual Speech Recognition (VSR) systems commonly rely on left-to-right autoregressive decoding, which can force premature decisions on visually ambiguous tokens before sufficient context is available. We propose DLLM-VSR, to the best of our knowledge, the first Diffusion Large Language Model (DLLM)-based VSR framework, formulating transcription as iterative masked denoising with flexible-order decoding. With confidence-based unmasking, DLLM-VSR commits high-confidence positions early and uses the committed tokens as bidirectional con
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2605.28456v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Existing Visual Speech Recognition (VSR) systems commonly rely on left-to-right autoregressive decoding, which can force premature decisions on visually ambiguous tokens before sufficient context is available.
- We propose DLLM-VSR, to the best of our knowledge, the first Diffusion Large Language Model (DLLM)-based VSR framework, formulating transcription as iterative masked denoising with flexible-order decoding.
- With confidence-based unmasking, DLLM-VSR commits high-confidence positions early and uses the committed tokens as bidirectional con
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