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🚨Coming to #ICML2026 🇰🇷 Last year, we introduced Block Diffusion LMs, adopted by dLLMs at Google, NVIDIA, Meta, etc. 🚀Today, we introduce Set Diffusion, a faster, more flexible alternative that combines AR and diffusion by interpolating generation orders. 🧵1/8

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