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John Thickstun

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#artificial intelligence Preprint Nov 2026

PianoBench: Evaluating Musical Perception and Reasoning in Language Models

Multimodal language models continue to improve on broad music understanding benchmarks, but which musical features can they perceive and reason about? We investigate this question by introducing PianoBench, a benchmark that tasks language models with reasoning about musical performances across congruent acoustic and sy...

Louis Bradshaw, Irmak Bukey, Dan Lin et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Large Language Continuous Diffusion Models

Despite the success of discrete diffusion language models (dLMs) for fast parallel decoding, their non-smooth, high-dimensional space hinders trajectory steering for reasoning and inference acceleration. To overcome this, we present Sigma, the first large-scale (3B/8B) continuous dLM built on steerable, low-dimensional...

Zhi-Han Yang, Wei Guo, Jean-Marie Lemercier et al. · 0 citations

Continuous Diffusion Scales Competitively with Discrete Diffusion for Language

The first scaling law for continuous DLMs that rivals discrete DLMs is established: RePlaid exhibits a compute gap of only $20\times$ compared to autoregressive models, outperforms Duo while using fewer parameters, and outperforms MDLM in the over-trained regime.

Zhi-Han Yang, Wei Guo, Shuibai Zhang et al. · 12 citations · ⚡2
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Unlocking Lossless Speedups in LLMs via Discrete Diffusion

Large Language Models (LLMs) owe much of their success to next-token prediction (NTP), but their autoregressive (AR) structure requires slow, sequential token generation. To overcome this bottleneck, we introduce diffusion-augmented LLMs, a new class of models that defines an AR model distribution while using diffusion...

S. Sahoo, Ling-Jie Chen, Khiem Pham et al. · 1 citation

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