iLLaDA trains an 8-billion-parameter diffusion model
A paper published on June 27, 2026 describes training an 8-billion-parameter Transformer with bidirectional masked diffusion on 12 trillion tokens.
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Published on June 27, 2026, the paper describes training an 8-billion-parameter Transformer with bidirectional masked diffusion on 12 trillion tokens, followed by diffusion-based instruction tuning. It reports better benchmark scores than LLaDA, although the instruction-tuned model still trails Qwen2.5 Instruct without reinforcement-learning alignment.
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