SAS Makes Schedulers Self-Aware

furongh · x · 2026-07-06

The core idea is to give the scheduler "self-awareness": SAS leverages the frozen model's own path likelihood to reward a specific unmasking sequence—essentially asking, "How well can I explain the target along this path?". This allows the model to learn a decoding order that naturally aligns with its own predictive strengths.

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