iLLaDA: masked diffusion in an 8B model
A description published on June 25, 2026 presents iLLaDA, an 8B masked-diffusion language model trained from scratch with fully bidirectional attention.
Source: iLLaDA: um modelo de linguagem de difusão mascarada de 8B (arxiv.org). Text prepared with AI from this source.
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On June 25, 2026, the iLLaDA description presented an 8B masked-diffusion language model trained from scratch with fully bidirectional attention. It retains the masked-diffusion objective in both pretraining and supervised fine-tuning.
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