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cs.AI · 2608.10438 · 2026/08/11

Continuous Interaction Diffusion: A Diffusion-Native Runtime for Asynchronous Tool-Augmented Reasoning

Cao, Yuhang
TL;DR:扩散语言模型的工具调用不该是「停-等-续」:CID 把工具交互融入迭代去噪,信息需求可在文本/JSON 调用完全序列化前浮现,感知绑定在去噪继续时启动外部读取,返回结果投影进演化中的思想状态并可回修早先认知。

🎯 问题

自回归模型天然适配工具调用的 stop-and-resume,但扩散语言模型并行细化输出——强迫在推理稳定前做工具决策、延迟有用观测、引入冗余细化与工具执行,伤害准确率和推理效率。

🔬 方法

三通道架构:模型只读的事实通道、Typed Cognitive Tensor 思想通道、显示通道。信息需求先于调用序列化浮现,允许感知绑定在去噪继续时启动外部读取;返回结果投影进演化中的思想状态并回修早期认知;持久绑定复用静态结果避免重复外部执行。
章节结构(全文标题提取):
1 Introduction
2 Background and Design Requirements
3 CID Design
4 Evaluation Protocol
5 Related Work
6 Discussion and Limitations
7 Conclusion
2.1 Autoregressive Generation and Turn-Based Tool Use · 2.2 Asynchronous Tool Interaction · 2.3 Diffusion Language Models · 2.4 Why the Conventional Tool Interface Underuses Diffusion · 2.5 Continuous Latent Reasoning · 2.6 Design Requirements · 3.1 Three Coupled Channels · 3.2 Typed Cognitive Tensor

📊 结果

面向异步工具增强推理的 diffusion-native 模型-运行时架构,减少冗余细化与工具执行,提升任务准确率与推理效率。

💡 与研究方向关联

扩散语言模型是后自回归范式的代表,但工具调用假设生成是「发射调用→等待→继续」的串行流。CID 重新设计运行时以匹配扩散的并行去噪本性——工具交互从离散边界变成连续过程。

📝 原文摘要

▶ 原文摘要 Abstract
Large language models increasingly rely on external tools to access up-to-date information, perform computation, and interact with the outside world. For autoregressive models, tool use naturally fits the generation process: the model emits a tool call, waits for the result, and then continues generating. Diffusion language models (dLLMs), however, reason by repeatedly refining many parts of their output in parallel, making this stop-and-resume interaction pattern unnecessarily restrictive. It can force tool decisions before the model's reasoning has stabilized, delay useful observations until a discrete call finishes, and introduce redundant refinement and tool execution, potentially hurting both task accuracy and inference efficiency. We introduce Continuous Interaction Diffusion (CID), a diffusion-native model--runtime architecture that integrates tool interaction into iterative denoising. CID separates a model-read-only fact channel, a thought channel represented by a Typed Cognitive Tensor, and a display channel. Information needs can emerge before a textual or JSON call is fully serialized, allowing perceptual bindings to launch external reads while denoising continues. Returned results are projected into the evolving thought state and can revise earlier cognition and display regions. Persistent bindings reuse static results without repeated external execution and refresh changing sources when needed. CID is designed to expose evidence earlier, overlap tool latency with model computation, reduce duplicate external work, and preserve useful computation after new evidence arrives. We formalize the architecture, runtime, and training objectives, and define an evaluation protocol for task quality and end-to-end efficiency. This first paper focuses on read-only tools and makes no empirical performance claims.
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