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Serving Masked Diffusion LLMs: Characterization and Design Principles from Real Hardware

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 24, 2026 · UTC

Masked diffusion language models (dLLMs) can in principle generate text faster than autoregressive (AR) models, since they denoise many tokens at once. Recent systems have begun building serving infrastructure for dLLMs, but none first measure how these models behave under real, concurrent serving load. Serving systems built without this grounding risk carrying over assumptions from AR serving that may not hold for dLLMs. We characterize dLLM serving to close this gap, using LLaDA-8B-Instruct with a D2F (Discrete Diffusion Forcing) LoRA adapter on a single NVIDIA H200 GPU, evaluated on GSM8K a

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