Diffusion LMs Bring Freedom to the Order of Thought
furongh · x · 2026-07-06
Autoregressive language models inherently generate tokens sequentially from left to right (token1→token2→token3…), making generation and reasoning a fundamentally serial process. Diffusion language models differ: they start with masked text and iteratively reveal tokens, introducing a new kind of freedom—the order in which thoughts emerge.
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