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Conviction 1 episode
18 September 202638 min

Stefano Ermon's bet that diffusion wins the inference era

With Stefano Ermon

Stefano Ermon says his lab's 2024 paper was the first to show a diffusion language model matching an autoregressive model's perplexity at GPT-2 scale while generating text about 10x faster.

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