Stanford and Together propose Next-Concept Modeling, a third paradigm for text generation
TheTuringPost · x · 2026-10-18
Stanford and Together AI propose Next-Concept Modeling (NCM), a third option for text generation beyond autoregressive and diffusion models: text is generated through a hierarchy of compressed codes, building from coarse representations to finer detail.
- The "concepts" are learned representations, not explicit human-readable ideas or outlines
- Paper and code are both publicly available
The approach aims to combine autoregressive efficiency with diffusion-style global planning — a notable architectural exploration for text generation.
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