Interpolating Autoregressive and Discrete Denoising Diffusion Language Models
Keywords: Diffusion Models, Text Diffusion, Generative Models
Abstract: Diffusion language models offer unique benefits over autoregressive (AR) models due to their potential for parallelized generation and controllability, yet they lag in likelihood modeling and are limited to fixed-length generation. In this work, we introduce a class of semi-autoregressive (SAR) diffusion models that interpolate between discrete denoising diffusion and autoregressive models.
We propose a recipe for building effective SAR models that includes an efficient training algorithm, estimators of gradient variance, and data-driven noise schedules to minimize the variance. SAR models overcome key limitations of diffusion language models, setting a new state-of-the-art performance on language modeling benchmarks and enabling generation of arbitrary-length sequences.
Primary Area: generative models
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