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Diffusion Drew Several Tokens From an Autoregressive Model

Uno adds lightweight diffusion weights without replacing the base next-token distribution.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-09-04-018
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Summary

Uno adds lightweight diffusion weights without replacing the base next-token distribution.

The authors report up to threefold throughput gains over the base model and advantages over tested speculative decoders at every batch size, while releasing code and checkpoints. Quality claims remain benchmark-specific.

Why it matters

Uno adds lightweight diffusion weights without replacing the base next-token distribution.

Limits and context

  • Quality claims remain benchmark-specific.

Key claims

  1. Uno adds lightweight diffusion weights without replacing the base next-token distribution.

    Qualification: Quality claims remain benchmark-specific.

    Evidence: source-2026-09-04-020

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2609.04010arXiv · primary research

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