arXiv Machine Learning

On the Redundancy of Timestep Embeddings in Diffusion Models

arXiv:2606. 20416v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models rely heavily on explicit timestep embeddings to modulate the denoising process across various noise scales.

arXiv AI
Jul 3

Subliminal Clocks: Latent Time Modelling in Diffusion Language Models

arXiv:2607. 01774v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) have recently emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive models.

By Maximo Rulli (Sapienza University of Rome), Thomas Fontanari (Sapienza University of Rome), Simone Petruzzi (Sapienza University of Rome), Federico Alvetreti (Sapienza University of Rome), Giorgio Strano (Sapienza University of Rome), Donato Crisostomi (Sapienza University of Rome), Giorgos Nikolaou (EPFL), Tommaso Mencattini (EPFL), Andrea Santilli (Independent researcher), Emanuele Rodol\`a (Sapienza University of Rome), Simone Scardapane (Sapienza University of Rome), Alessio Devoto (Independent researcher)
arXiv AI
Jun 17

Rethinking Cross-Layer Information Routing in Diffusion Transformers

arXiv:2605. 20708v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have become a de facto backbone of modern visual generation, and nearly every major axis of their design -- tokenization, attention, conditioning, objectives, and latent autoencoders -- has been extensively revisited.

By Chao Xu, Maohua Li, Qirui Li, Yixuan Xu, Yanke Zhou, Yunhe Li, Cuifeng Shen, Hanlin Tang, Kan Liu, Tao Lan, Lin Qu, Shao-Qun Zhang
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

A Comparative analysis of Layer-wise Representational Capacity in AR and Diffusion LLMs

arXiv:2603. 07475v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autoregressive (AR) language models build representations incrementally via left-to-right prediction, while diffusion language models (dLLMs) are trained through full-sequence denoising.

By Raghavv Goel, Risheek Garrepalli, Sudhanshu Agrawal, Chris Lott, Mingu Lee, Fatih Porikli
arXiv AI
Jun 15

Residual Context Diffusion Language Models

arXiv:2601. 22954v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) have emerged as a promising alternative to purely autoregressive language models because they can decode multiple tokens in parallel.

By Yuezhou Hu, Harman Singh, Monishwaran Maheswaran, Haocheng Xi, Coleman Hooper, Jintao Zhang, Aditya Tomar, Michael W. Mahoney, Sewon Min, Mehrdad Farajtabar, Kurt Keutzer, Amir Gholami, Chenfeng Xu