Xiuyu Li(@sheriyuo):iLLaDA is an 8B masked diffusion language model trained from scratch with fully bidirectional attention, keeping the masked-diffusion objective all the way through pretraining and SFT rather than bolting diffusion onto an autoregressive base. Improved Large Language Diffusion Models Paper:

Xiuyu Li

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Researcher @StepFun_ai | Working on long-horizon tasks | Prev @RUC1937 | Opinions are my own

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Xiuyu Li@sheriyuo

2026.06.25 02:46

iLLaDA is an 8B masked diffusion language model trained from scratch with fully bidirectional attention, keeping the masked-diffusion objective all the way through pretraining and SFT rather than bolting diffusion onto an autoregressive base. Improved Large Language Diffusion Models Paper: