Papersby GlyphDiffusionGemma Technical Report research paper by Google DeepMind, 2026
Google DeepMind · Foundation models · Jul 31, 2026 · 14 citations · 40 upvotes · unverified
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DiffusionGemma is a fine-tuned mixture-of-experts language model that uses discrete diffusion to generate text blocks in parallel, achieving high speed while preserving capabilities like multimodal inputs and reasoning.
By DiffusionGemma Team, Adrien Ali Taïga, James Assiene and 41 more · arXiv 2608.00146 · PDF
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- 14, 1 influential · Semantic Scholar
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- 40 · Hugging Face
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