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Harsha Vardhan Khurdula

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Preprint Jul 2026

Audio-Native Speech Recognition with a Frozen Discrete-Diffusion Language Model

This work trains an audio-native interface for DiffusionGemma, a 26B mixture-of-experts model that generates text by uniform, random-token discrete diffusion rather than the absorbing-mask scheme common to recent diffusion language models.

Harsha Vardhan Khurdula, Abhinav Singh, Yoeven D. Khemlani et al. · 0 citations