Diffusion language models develop 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥⏱️
Despite receiving no explicit timestep, mask-based DLMs encode denoising progress in a low-dimensional latent structure. We can steer this clock predictably and watch the model correct perturbations across layers.
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