Where Should Diffusion Enter a Language Model? Geometry-Guided Hidden-State Replacement

arXiv:2605.14368 · cs.CL, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-05-14 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-05-14

Updated: 2026-09-27

Terminology

• Transformer — 55× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Diffusion Model — 10× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Diffusion Models — 8× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Intrinsic Dimension — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Langevin Dynamics — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distillation — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Perplexity — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• 2-Wasserstein Distance — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ambient Dimension — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Wasserstein Distance — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Decode — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Degeneracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generative Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Modeling — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generative Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Iterative Refinement — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Latent Diffusion Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Latent Diffusion Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Lyapunov function — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Optimal Transport — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Teacher-Student Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer Architecture — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• The Llama 3 Herd of Models
• Pointer Sentinel Mixture Models
• CoDAR: Continuous Diffusion Language Models are More Powerful Than You Think
• Dolma: an Open Corpus of Three Trillion Tokens for Language Model Pretraining Research
• Qwen3 Technical Report
• Dream 7B: Diffusion Large Language Models

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