Diffusion Language ModelsShen Nie et al. (Renmin University of China, Ant Group)Renmin University of ChinaAnt Group

Nie et al. present LLaDA

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Presented LLaDA — an 8B diffusion language model rivals LLaMA3 8B at in-context learning and beats GPT-4o at reversal completion

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Reopened the question of whether autoregression is a necessary condition for LLM capabilities at all

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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09992

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