@inproceedings{huang-etal-2026-empirical, title = "Empirical Analysis of Decoding Biases in Masked Diffusion Models", author = "Huang, Pengcheng and Liu, Tianming and Liu, Zhenghao and Yan, Yukun and Wang, Shuo and Xiao, Tong and Chen, Zulong and Sun, Maosong", editor = "Liakata, Maria and Moreira, Viviane P. and Zhang, Jiajun and Jurgens, David", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)", month = jul, year = "2026", address = "San Diego, California, United States", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/check-for-anonymous-pdfs/2026.acl-long.311/", pages = "6853--6876", ISBN = "979-8-89176-390-6" }