EMNLP Paper Shows Language Diffusion Models Are Associative Memories

An IBM-RPI paper accepted to EMNLP 2026 main conference shows that language diffusion models are essentially associative memories with a sharp phase transition in generalization, and that they form novel attractors even for unseen samples, indicating coexistence of memorization and creativity.

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