Block Diffusion: Interpolating Between Autoregressive and Diffusion Language Models

This paper introduces block diffusion language models, enhancing flexibility and efficiency in generation while achieving state-of-the-art performance in language modeling benchmarks. Code and model weights are provided. https://arxiv.org/abs//2503.09573 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ArxivPapers TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@arxiv_papers Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/arxiv-papers/id1692476016 Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arxiv-papers