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title: "Diffusion Language Models"
created: 2026-05-10
updated: 2026-05-10
type: concept
tags: [diffusion, model, inference, stub]
sources: []
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# Diffusion Language Models

Diffusion language models generate or refine discrete text through denoising-style processes instead of purely left-to-right autoregression.

In this wiki they mainly appear in inference acceleration and speculative decoding comparisons.

## Related

- [[dflash]] — Uses block diffusion for speculative decoding.
- [[ddtree]] — Draft-tree extension for diffusion decoding.
- [[speculative-decoding]] — Broader decoding acceleration family.