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DiffResearch: Accelerating Deep Research with Diffusion Language Models

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Briefings

DiffResearch accelerates deep research by replacing autoregressive language models with diffusion language models as the core backbone. Experiments on 100 benchmarks show diffusion backbones are roughly 6 times faster end-to-end, driven by significant reductions in planning and writing latency. The framework introduces dFast, a decomposition mode that achieves a 1.99 times median speedup for intermediate subquery extraction without compromising report quality.

Key points

• DiffResearch replaces autoregressive language models with diffusion language models as the core backbone for deep research tasks.
• On 100 Deep Research Bench tasks, diffusion backbones achieve roughly 6 times faster end-to-end performance compared to autoregressive models.

Context

Deep research systems face latency bottlenecks due to iterative planning, evidence gathering, and synthesis. Most production systems rely on autoregressive models, which inherit left-to-right decoding constraints. This study tests whether diffusion backbones can overcome these limitations.

Limitations

The benchmark includes 100 tasks with fixed retrieval code and prompts; only the backbone swap was varied. Speedup measurements are median-based and may not reflect worst-case scenarios. No causal claims are made about why diffusion models outperform AR models in this specific setup.

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