Discrete Diffusion Reading Group

📚 Journal club on discrete diffusion models
🎥 Replays available on YouTube!
Contact: [email protected]
Hosted by @ssahoo_, @jdeschena, @zhihanyang_

[Discrete Diffusion Reading Group @diffusion_llms]

Drowning in the sea of Discrete Diffusion papers? 🌊
We got you.

Join our Reading Group!

From theory → empirics, and language → molecules — we’ll decode the chaos together 💫

Join the cult—uh, I mean community 😇
👉 Google Group:  https://t.co/kV9efqBBTu

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@gregorkornhardt Meeting link: https://t.co/1mo8FsGmGG

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This Monday, Oct 26, Gregor Kornhardt (@gregorkornhardt) will present his paper:

SOL: Measuring Gaps between Text Distributions by Double Sliced Wasserstein Metrics

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@gregorkornhardt Paper link: https://t.co/Ngt9OFyJa8

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RT @JCJesseLai: 🎉 Excited to extend our book, The Principles of Diffusion Models, into a tutorial at @NeurIPSConf 2026!

This time, it’s al…

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Discrete Diffusion Tutorial at NeurIPS 2026 (Sydney) 🔥

[Subham Sahoo @ssahoo_]

🎊 Excited to give a tutorial on diffusion LLMs at @NeurIPSConf 2026 with @StefanoErmon @JCJesseLai @mittu1204

📆 Mon, Dec 7, 9 AM AEDT
📍 TikTok Ent Centre (Sydney, Australia)

Topics covered:
> A beginner friendly introduction to diffusion-LLMs
> Designing frontier diffusion-LLMs
> Using Continuous diffusion for LLMs

[Subham Sahoo @ssahoo_]

🎊 Excited to give a tutorial on diffusion LLMs at @NeurIPSConf 2026 with @StefanoErmon @JCJesseLai @mittu1204

📆 Mon, Dec 7, 9 AM AEDT
📍 TikTok Ent Centre (Sydney, Australia)

Topics covered:
> A beginner friendly introduction to diffusion-LLMs
> Designing frontier diffusion-LLMs
> Using Continuous diffusion for LLMs

[Justin Deschenaux @jdeschena]

Missed the presentation yesterday? We just uploaded the recording on YouTube: https://t.co/n72toRwYqJ

I especially tried to give some intuition for the sampler, which can look surprising on a first read!

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Missed the presentation yesterday? We just uploaded the recording on YouTube: https://t.co/UuH6AsZwCU

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This Monday, Oct 19, Justin Deschenaux (@jdeschena) will present his paper:

Simplex Diffusion Models

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@jdeschena Paper link: https://t.co/ZurtuY7Di3

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This Monday, Oct 19, Justin Deschenaux (@jdeschena) will present his paper:

Simplex Diffusion Models

[Zhihan Yang @zhihanyang_]

Join our reading group next Monday!

Topic: Simplex Diffusion Models
Presenter: Justin Deschenaux

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@jdeschena https://t.co/1mo8FsGmGG

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Diffusion-LLMs go mainstream 🚀

[Huiying Li @huiying_lii]

We added Uno training to NeMo AutoModel.
The neat idea: let the model draft for itself, then verify with the original AR model — no separate draft model needed.
Our Qwen3-0.6B run gets ~2 committed tokens per forward on GSM8K and 1.84 on HumanEval.

PR: https://t.co/LCODRTMd14
cc @IFM_AI @ssahoo_

Thanks @krasul and @Chonghan_Liu for getting this in 🙏

[Subham Sahoo @ssahoo_]

Really excited to see Uno-adapters incorporated into @nvidia -Nemo

Thanks @huiying_lii @krasul @Chonghan_Liu

Learn more about Uno: https://t.co/3yPgdtpIwV

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Missed the talk? Check out the recording on YouTube: https://t.co/URaxzLOsP0

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This Monday, Oct 12, Yeongmin Kim will present his paper:

Gumbel Straight Flow: Distilling Autoregressive Models into One-step Flow Maps

[Zhihan Yang @zhihanyang_]

Join our reading group next Monday!

Topic: Gumbel Straight Flow: Distilling Autoregressive Models into One-Step Flow Maps
Presenter: Yeongmin Kim

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https://t.co/1mo8FsGmGG

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This Monday, Oct 12, Yeongmin Kim will present his paper:

Gumbel Straight Flow: Distilling Autoregressive Models into One-step Flow Maps

[David Ruhe @djjruhe]

Introducing 💫 Gumbel Straight Flow 💫: Distilling Autoregressive Models into One-step Flow Maps 🚀

Can autoregressive (language) models be used as teachers for flow map parallel samplers?

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Correction: Outside Grand Ballroom

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✈️ Discrete Diffusion Meetup @COLM_conf

📅 Oct 8, 4-5 PM

📍Grand Ballroom, 3rd Floor

If you’re into discrete diffusion, come hang out, talk shop, and meet others working in the space.

hosts: @ssahoo_ @zhihanyang_