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Block Diffusion: Interpolating Autoregressive and Diffusion Language Models

by t55 on 5/8/25, 6:18 PM with 16 comments

• by macawfish on 5/9/25, 12:36 AM

  Wow.

  I can't wait to see ideas from the diffusion image generation world (like controlnet) work their way into language models.

• by notrealyme123 on 5/8/25, 8:50 PM

  This was posted here already a few weeks ago.

• by holoduke on 5/8/25, 9:11 PM

  Whenever I try to read and understand this paper, I feel extremely dumb. I have my degree in CS, but this is just too complex for me to understand.

• by gitroom on 5/9/25, 4:02 AM

  Yeah I always end up lost in papers like this too, even with my CS degree, the research keeps leveling up nonstop.