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Why are people so excited about diffusion LMs? What am I missing?

I understand the basic idea of generating text through iterative refinement instead of predicting every next token sequentially. It sounds interesting But when it comes to reasoning. I am not fully convinced. Autoregressive LLMs can already use chain of thought, RL, multiple sampling attempts and a…

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  1. 2026-10-16 07:42 · r/deeplearning
    Why are people so excited about diffusion LMs? What am I missing?

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