@inproceedings{koh-etal-2026-factorization, title = "When i.i.d. Factorization Breaks Language: The Structural Failure of Discrete Diffusion Language Models", author = "Koh, Hyukhun and Joo, Seongho and Pyun, Haesung and Jung, Kyomin", 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.193/", pages = "4417--4436", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }