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cs.CL2025
Efficient-DLM: From Autoregressive to Diffusion Language Models, and Beyond in Speed
Yonggan Fu, Lexington Whalen, Zhifan Ye +11
Diffusion language models (dLMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm that enables parallel, non-autoregressive generation, but their learning efficiency lags behind that of autore…
cs.CV2025
Early-Bird Diffusion: Investigating and Leveraging Timestep-Aware Early-Bird Tickets in Diffusion Models for Efficient Training
Lexington Whalen, Zhenbang Du, Haoran You +4
Training diffusion models (DMs) requires substantial computational resources due to multiple forward and backward passes across numerous timesteps, motivating research into efficie…