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CoDA: Coding LM via Diffusion Adaptation research paper by Salesforce, 2025

Salesforce · Inference and efficiency · Sep 27, 2025 · 5 citations · 43 upvotes

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CoDA, a 1.7B-parameter diffusion coder, achieves competitive performance with smaller models through confidence-guided sampling and is released with open-source tools.

By Haolin Chen, Shiyu Wang, Can Qin and 12 more · arXiv 2510.03270 · PDF · Code

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