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Unlocking Lossless Speedups in LLMs via Discrete Diffusion

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TL;DR - Diffusion-augmented LLMs preserve an autoregressive model’s distribution while generating multiple tokens in parallel, enabling lossless inference acceleration. The proposed Uno models deliver up to 3× higher generation speed than their base models without a separate draft model.

  • Uno separates standard next-token-trained autoregressive weights from lightweight diffusion weights learned through a low-overhead distillation phase.
  • The Ψ-Spec sampler supports lossless acceleration and inference-time scaling at a fixed context length.
  • Uno reportedly outperforms leading speculative-decoding methods in throughput across every evaluated batch size.
  • The 8B model surpasses larger or proprietary diffusion LLMs on the evaluated agentic tool-use, coding, and long-context reasoning benchmarks.

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Unlocking Lossless Speedups in LLMs via Discrete Diffusion

arXiv cs.LG Subham Sekhar Sahoo, Lingjie Chen, Khiem Pham, Jonathan Geuter, Chaitanya Dwivedi, Varad Pimpalkhute, Yash Akhauri, Alexander Moreno, Mikhail Yurochkin, Zhenting Wang, Mostafa Elhoushi, Nolan Dey, Shane Bergsma, Joel Hestness, John Thickstun, Eric Xing, Zhengzhong Liu 2026-09-03 arXiv:2609.04010
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TL;DR - Diffusion-augmented LLMs preserve an autoregressive model’s distribution while generating multiple tokens in parallel, enabling lossless inference acceleration. The proposed Uno models deliver up to 3× higher generation speed than their base models without a separate draft model.

  • Uno separates standard next-token-trained autoregressive weights from lightweight diffusion weights learned through a low-overhead distillation phase.
  • The Ψ-Spec sampler supports lossless acceleration and inference-time scaling at a fixed context length.
  • Uno reportedly outperforms leading speculative-decoding methods in throughput across every evaluated batch size.
  • The 8B model surpasses larger or proprietary diffusion LLMs on the evaluated agentic tool-use, coding, and long-context reasoning benchmarks.
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