@article{dontretrainalignadaptingautoregressivelm,
  title = {Don't Retrain, Align: Adapting Autoregressive LMs to Diffusion LMs via Representation Alignment},
  author = {Fred Zhangzhi Peng and Alexis Fox and Anru R. Zhang and Alexander Tong},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2605.06885},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06885},
}