@inproceedings{zhong-etal-2026-parallelism,
    title = "Parallelism and Generation Order in Masked Diffusion Language Models: Limits Today, Potential Tomorrow",
    author = "Zhong, Yangyang  and
      Gu, Yanmei  and
      Zang, Zhengqing  and
      Li, Xiaomeng  and
      Ding, Yuqi  and
      Jia, Xibei  and
      Shen, Yuting  and
      Lan, Zhenzhong  and
      Zhu, Liwang  and
      Liu, Weiping  and
      Zhou, Junlin  and
      Liu, Haisheng  and
      Yu, Zhong Xin  and
      Luo, Pengxin  and
      Qi, Donglian  and
      Yan, Yunfeng  and
      Zhao, Junbo",
    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.357/",
    pages = "7178--7218",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1"
}