# Plan-and-Patch: Diffusion Language Models for Agentic Planning

**Published:** October 9, 2026
**Author:** Syamantak Kumar, Jiang Guo, Hassan Hamad, Hideo Kobayashi, Yi Xiang, Yezhou Yang, Yanjun Qi, Daniele Bonadiman, Jiarong Jiang
**Source:** arXiv — cs.AI
**Language:** en-US
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Planning is increasingly important for long-horizon agents, where successful execution requires coordinating subgoals, tool use, and intermediate outcomes over many steps. Yet assumptions made during planning may be invalidated by the environment, tools may return unexpected…

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