@inproceedings{dai-etal-2026-revealing, title = "Revealing the Attention Floating Mechanism in Masked Diffusion Models", author = "Dai, Xin and Huang, Pengcheng and Liu, Zhenghao and Wang, Shuo and Yan, Yukun and Xiao, Chaojun and Gu, Yu and Yu, Ge and Sun, Maosong", 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.404/", pages = "8266--8286", ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1" }