Discrete Diffusion Reading Group

Recordings of our previous meetings

S5 | Esoteric Language Models
00:55:06

S5 | Esoteric Language Models

In this talk, Zhihan Yang presents Eso-LMs, which unifies AR and diffusion language models. Eso-LMs enable exact likelihoods and KV caching while preserving parallel generation.

January 12, 2026 Click to read full abstract
S4 | DiffuCoder: Understanding and Improving Masked Diffusion Models for Code Generation
1:00:19

S4 | DiffuCoder: Understanding and Improving Masked Diffusion Models for Code Generation

In this talk, Shansan Gong will present DiffuCoder and discuss how diffusion language models enable global planning and iterative refinement for code generation.

December 22, 2025 Click to read full abstract
S3 | OneFlow: Concurrent Mixed-Modal and Interleaved Generation with Edit Flows
1:03:02

S3 | OneFlow: Concurrent Mixed-Modal and Interleaved Generation with Edit Flows

In this talk, John Nguyen presents OneFlow, a non-autoregressive multimodal model for concurrent text and image generation.

December 15, 2025 Click to read full abstract
S2 | Peptune: De Novo Generation of Therapeutic Peptides with Guided Discrete Diffusion
1:02:24

S2 | Peptune: De Novo Generation of Therapeutic Peptides with Guided Discrete Diffusion

In this talk, Sophia Tang shows how discrete diffusion enables more controllable and efficient molecule generation.

November 25, 2025 Click to read full abstract
S1 | Diffusion Language Models beat AR in data constrained regime
1:28:44

S1 | Diffusion Language Models beat AR in data constrained regime

In this talk, Mihir Prabhudesai shows that diffusion LLMs excel in such settings by extracting more information from limited data.

November 21, 2025 Click to read full abstract