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Introspective Diffusion Language Models
Diffusion language models (DLMs) offer a compelling promise that parallel token generation could break the sequential bottleneck of autoregressive (AR) decoding. However, DLMs consistently lag behind AR models in quality. This gap stems from a fundamental failure of introspective consistency: AR models agree with what they generate, whereas DLMs often do not. The Introspective Diffusion Language Model (I-DLM) uses introspective strided decoding (ISD) to verify previously generated tokens while advancing new ones in the same forward pass. With gated LoRA, ISD enables bit-for-bit lossless acceleration.
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