@inproceedings{kim-etal-2026-pivot, title = "Pivot-{SD}: Efficient Self-Distillation for Masked Diffusion Language Models", author = "Kim, Seo Hyun and Hong, Sunwoo and Choi, Younwoo and Chao, Chen-Hao and Yun, Se-Young and Krishnan, Rahul G", 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.2146/", pages = "48790--48806", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }