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New UNIFUSION method adapts autoregressive models to discrete diffusion

Researchers have developed UNIFUSION, a novel method to adapt autoregressive language models into discrete diffusion models. This approach unifies existing diffusion objectives under a single generalized Kullback--Leibler objective, allowing for seamless switching between different corruption kernels like mask and uniform noise. Evaluations on GPT2 checkpoints demonstrate that UNIFUSION improves the trade-off between generative perplexity and unigram entropy, outperforming other diffusion models on benchmarks like WinoGrande and SIQA. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more efficient and versatile text generation models by bridging autoregressive and diffusion architectures.

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New UNIFUSION method adapts autoregressive models to discrete diffusion

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Xiaoyi Jiang, Jingyuan Li, Yixuan Jiang, Wei Liu, Yi Zhu, Zuoqiang Shi, Pipi Hu ·

    UNIFUSION: Adapting Autoregressive Language Models into Discrete Diffusion under a Unified Reverse-Rate Objective

    arXiv:2607.24507v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing methods mainly adapt pretrained autoregressive (AR) language models to masked diffusion, whereas we directly adapt them to uniform-noise diffusion, where every token remains editable during sampling. However, adapting AR …