@inproceedings{wei-etal-2026-efficient,
    title = "Efficient Token-Level Policy Optimization for Masked Diffusion Models via Velocity Alignment",
    author = "Wei, Chenxing  and
      Kang, Jiazhen  and
      Wang, Hong  and
      Zhang, Jianqing  and
      Jiang, Hao  and
      Xuxiaolong  and
      Sun, Ningyuan  and
      He, Ying  and
      Yu, Fei  and
      Shu, Yao  and
      Jiang, Bo",
    editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi  and
      Dev, Sunipa  and
      Li, Jessy  and
      Elliott, Desmond",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.1910/",
    pages = "43516--43536",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}