Discrete Diffusion Reading Group

Relevant videos on discrete diffusion and generative models

How did diffusion LLMs get so fast?
22:14
February 9, 2026

How did diffusion LLMs get so fast?

Techniques for accelerating diffusion LLMs, from self-distillation and curriculum learning to KV caching and block diffusion

Transformers & Diffusion LLMs: What's the connection?
24:54
November 6, 2025

Transformers & Diffusion LLMs: What's the connection?

How Transformers evolved from machine translation to powering diffusion-based LLMs like LLaDA

Text diffusion: A new paradigm for LLMs
24:16
October 6, 2025

Text diffusion: A new paradigm for LLMs

Overview of diffusion-based LLMs as an alternative to autoregressive models, covering D3PM and LLaDA

But How Do Diffusion Language Models Actually Work?
12:27
August 3, 2025

But How Do Diffusion Language Models Actually Work?

Jia-Bin Huang explores several ideas for applying diffusion models to language modeling

Simple Guidance Mechanisms for Discrete Diffusion Models
7:00
April 15, 2025

Simple Guidance Mechanisms for Discrete Diffusion Models

Simple Guidance Mechanisms for Discrete Diffusion Models (ICLR 2025 video)

Simple Diffusion Language Models
15:07
July 3, 2024

Simple Diffusion Language Models

Quick introduction to Masked Diffusion Language Models (MDLM) by Alexander Rush