LDLMIn construction

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Meshchaninov et al. · May 2026
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Diffusion language model
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LDLM @ e18c42a, not yet public · arXiv:2605.07933v1 · OpenWebText · 1024 · checkpoint, tokenizer and saved statistics not verifiedHow to read

Denoiser

Denoiser

Noised latents

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tensor

The latents at diffusion time tt.

shape
ztz_t [B batch, T positions, 768 d]
Sources

Contextual evidence from Add noise

The diffusion gradient into the encoder: the weight rises from its minimum by a sigmoid schedule during warm-up, and the clean latents become w · z + (1 − w) · detach(z), unchanged in value.

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Contextual evidence from Add noise

Diffusion: a time is sampled, the latents are noised by the marginal, with probability one half a first call without gradient gives the self-conditioning estimate, the denoiser predicts the clean latents, and the mean squared error against them is taken; the three losses are summed with their weights.

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Contextual evidence from Add noise

The marginal: x_t = μ x_0 + σ ε.

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Contextual evidence from Add noise

The tangent schedule: α = 1/√(1 + d² tan²(πt/2)), σ = √(1 − α²); β(t) is evaluated with t clipped at 0.95.

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Contextual evidence from Add noise

Times are drawn by the adaptive sampler in resampling mode, otherwise uniformly.

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Contextual evidence from Add noise

Joint training: decoder noise of standard deviation 3; weights 1 for the three losses; the diffusion gradient into the encoder rises from 0.001 over 50,000 steps by a straight-through scaling; the token decoder’s input is detached; AdamW at 3·10⁻⁴ for 1,000,000 steps of 512 sequences, gradients clipped at norm 1.

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Contextual evidence from Add noise

Diffusion: self-conditioning on, `t_min` 0.05 and `eps` 10⁻⁵; the adaptive time sampler has 100 bins, a minimum weight of 0.0001, an EMA of 0.9 and updates every 5,000 steps; the denoiser’s EMA decay is 0.9999; scheduler `tanh` with d = 3, solver `euler`, `ode_sampling` false, N = 128 by default; the denoiser has 12 blocks of width 768 with 12 heads, time conditioning `adaln`, a standard MLP, softcap 50 and self-conditioning by concatenation; the timestep embedding’s `max_period` is 10.

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Contextual evidence from Denoiser

The denoiser owns the time embedding’s two affine layers, one rotary table for all blocks, an affine projection of the concatenated input, and the stack.

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Contextual evidence from Denoiser

The time embedding passes its MLP and a SiLU; the noised latents are concatenated with the previous clean estimate, zeros when there is none, and projected; the stack runs in bfloat16.

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Contextual evidence from Denoiser

The denoiser’s stack applies the blocks in order and then the output layer, each with the time condition.

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