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Fixed-Point Masked Generative Modeling

2026-05-29 · Andrea Miele, Yiming Qin, Alba Carballo-Castro, Justin Deschenaux, Pascal Frossard arxiv

Masked Generative Models (MGMs) enable parallel decoding and achieve strong performance across modalities, but require full-sequence bidirectional transformers at every step, making training costly and degrading quality under low sampling budgets. Existing work improves efficiency via better samplers or cheaper fixed-depth denoisers, but they still allocate a fixed amount of denoiser computation to each refinement step. We introduce Fixed-Point Masked Generative Models (FP-MGMs), which replace part of the denoiser with a fixed-point solver over shared attention layers to enable adaptive depth with fewer parameters. To make it more effective for masked generation, we first introduce a cross-step consistency loss, which aligns hidden representations at neighboring denoising steps and, second, three-state reuse (3SR) which warm-starts the solver using the previous solution by treating differently unchanged, still-masked, and newly revealed tokens respectively. Together, these components define our complete training-to-inference framework for fixed-point masked generation, \emph{CoFRe}. We also show that pre-trained MGMs can be converted into FP-MGMs with short fine-tuning, avoiding full retraining. Across modalities, CoFRe improves the quality and cost trade-off. On OpenWebText, CoFRe reduces parameters by 38.8\%, training time by 11.5\%, and VRAM by 16.9\%, while improving generative perplexity from 830.8 to 101.8 at a budget of $96$ transformer-block forward passes, compared to MDLM. In ImageNette, CoFRe reduces training time by 48.6\% and VRAM by 50.7\%, while improving FID in all sample budgets tested. Overall, CoFRe offers a practical framework for cheaper training and stronger low-budget masked generation.

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