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Diffusion language models benefit from scaled and distilled text embeddings

Researchers have explored the effectiveness of different text embeddings for diffusion language models (DLMs), finding that scaling embeddings within the T5 family, such as from T5 to T5Gemma-1 and then to T5Gemma-2, significantly improves generative performance. However, the highly discriminative nature of T5Gemma-2 embeddings can hinder generation by separating plausible alternative words. To address this, the researchers developed a distillation method where a student encoder learns from the teacher's decoded probabilities, creating a more connected and diffusible latent space. This approach resulted in a medium-sized DLM achieving a generation perplexity of 17.8 on OpenWebText, outperforming GPT-2-M. AI

IMPACT This research offers a method to improve text generation quality in diffusion models by optimizing the latent space of embeddings.

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Diffusion language models benefit from scaled and distilled text embeddings

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  1. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Scaling and Distilling Text Embeddings for Better Diffusibility

    Diffusion language models (DLMs) offer a promising alternative to autoregressive (AR) language generation. Recent advances in continuous DLMs, which apply latent diffusion to continuous text embeddings, raise a practical question: which embedding makes the best latent space, i.e.…