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dLLM: Simple Diffusion Language Modeling research paper by UC Berkeley, 2026

UC Berkeley · Feb 26, 2026 · Foundation models · 12 citations · 153 upvotes · unverified

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A unified open-source framework is presented that standardizes core components of diffusion language modeling for reproduction, customization, and accessible development of both large and small models.

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About this paper
Authors
Zhanhui Zhou, Lingjie Chen, Hanghang Tong and 1 more
arXiv
2602.22661 · PDF
Venue
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Citations
12, 1 influential · Semantic Scholar
Upvotes
153 · Hugging Face
Code
github.com/ZHZisZZ/dllm
Lab
UC Berkeley

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Influential citationsfirst count: 1Sep 25, 2026
Citationsfirst count: 12Sep 25, 2026
New paperFound by the weekly scan, unverifiedSep 25, 2026

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