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Retrofitting language models to operate over bytes
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gchamonlive
· 2026-10-11 Sun 11:50 UTC ·
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Aren't diffusion models token-free?
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armcat
· 2026-10-11 Sun 12:04 UTC ·
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No, they still operate on tokens, it's just the difference in how text is sampled. It's done through iterative denoising and in parallel, across multiple token positions.