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discrete-diffusion
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advancedThe Mathematics of Discrete Diffusion
The formal machinery under masked text generation: categorical transition matrices, the kernel choices that were tried and discarded, the variational bound, and the two parameterizations that made the objective trainable at scale.
9 steps·~14 min
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advancedDiffusion language models: generating text all at once
How diffusion was rebuilt for discrete text: masked diffusion instead of Gaussian noise, parallel refinement instead of token-by-token decoding, the speed economics that make it attractive, and the honest trade-offs against autoregressive transformers.
8 steps·~12 min