Continuous diffusion language models match discrete peers while enabling smoother control

Sigma scales continuous language diffusion to 3B and 8B parameters, using 16-dimensional token embeddings to support controllable sampling and few-step generation.

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Zhihan Yang · Wei Guo · Jean-Marie Lemercier · Simon Welker · Yonggan Fu · Mohammad Mahdi Kamani · +11 more

NVIDIA · Cornell University · Georgia Institute of Technology

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The authors built 3B and 8B parameter models that jointly denoise Gaussian-corrupted token embeddings within blocks.

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Sigma scales continuous diffusion language modeling to 3B and 8B parameters, matching comparable discrete models while enabling controllable and low-step generation.

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