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Technology & AIJul 6, 2026

What Does a Discrete Diffusion Model Learn?

What does a discrete diffusion model learn: a denoiser, a score ratio, or a bridge plug-in predictor?

What does a discrete diffusion model learn: a denoiser, a score ratio, or a bridge plug-in predictor? At the level of jump rates, these are one object in different coordinates, and reading a neural network in the wrong coordinate changes the process being trained and sampled.…

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