@inproceedings{zhu-etal-2026-policy, title = "On-Policy Self-Distillation for Efficient Diffusion Language Models with Early-Stage Calibration", author = "Zhu, Huaisheng and Liu, MingYu and Liu, Junze and Ge, Zhen and Wang, Tian and Gesi, Jiri and Wang, Dakuo and Zhang, Weiqi and Zhang, Houyu and Guo, Yufan and Li, Xian and Yin, Bing and Sanghavi, Sujay", editor = "Liakata, Maria and Moreira, Viviane P. and Zhang, Jiajun and Jurgens, David", booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {ACL} 2026", month = jul, year = "2026", address = "San Diego, California, United States", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.findings-acl.1344/", pages = "26954--26965", ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1" }