Adaptive token computation narrows diffusion language models’ quality gap

ALoDLM recurrently refines difficult token representations while committing easier predictions early, improving benchmark scores without giving up parallel decoding.

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Liancheng Fang · Zhuowei Li · Youngeun Kim · Tianchen Zhao · Rajat Koner · Jiaye Wu · +7 more

University of Illinois Chicago · Amazon AGI · Korea University

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The authors built ALoDLM around token-adaptive latent recurrence.

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Diffusion language models can match autoregressive quality by allocating more recurrent compute to hard tokens while easy tokens commit early.

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Aran Komatsuzaki @arankomatsuzaki
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Amazon AGI presents Adaptively Looped Diffusion Language Models Outperforms all evaluated DLMs and the corresponding AR baselines in average benchmark score proj: alo-dlm.github.io abs: arxiv.org/abs/2610.04198 repo: github.com/amazon-science… model: huggingface.co/amazon/ALoDLM-…

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