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5 papers

cs.CL2026

Why Gaussian Diffusion Models Fail on Discrete Data and How to Prevent It?

Alexander Shabalin, Simon Elistratov, Viacheslav Meshchaninov +2

Diffusion models have become a standard approach for generative modeling in continuous domains, yet their application to discrete data remains challenging. We investigate why Gauss…

cs.CL2026

Smoothie: Smoothing Diffusion on Token Embeddings for Text Generation

Alexander Shabalin, Viacheslav Meshchaninov, Dmitry Vetrov

Diffusion models have achieved state-of-the-art performance in generating images, audio, and video, but their adaptation to text remains challenging due to its discrete nature. Pri…

cs.CL2026

How to Train Your Latent Diffusion Language Model Jointly With the Latent Space

Viacheslav Meshchaninov, Alexander Shabalin, Egor Chimbulatov +4

Latent diffusion models offer an attractive alternative to discrete diffusion for non-autoregressive text generation by operating on continuous text representations and denoising e…

cs.CL2026

Cosmos: Compressed and Smooth Latent Space for Text Diffusion Modeling

Viacheslav Meshchaninov, Egor Chimbulatov, Alexander Shabalin +2

Autoregressive language models dominate modern text generation, yet their sequential nature introduces fundamental limitations: decoding is slow, and maintaining global coherence r…

cs.CL2025

TEncDM: Understanding the Properties of the Diffusion Model in the Space of Language Model Encodings

Alexander Shabalin, Viacheslav Meshchaninov, Egor Chimbulatov +6

This paper presents the Text Encoding Diffusion Model (TEncDM), a novel approach to diffusion modeling that operates in the space of pre-trained language model encodings. In contra…