Looping cuts training FLOPs for uniform diffusion language models
Looped UDLMs match a roughly 0.5-trillion-token baseline with up to 2.8x fewer FLOPs on OpenWebText and 3.3x fewer on FineWeb-Edu.
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Looped UDLMs match a roughly 0.5-trillion-token baseline with up to 2.8x fewer FLOPs on OpenWebText and 3.3x fewer on FineWeb-Edu.
Selective looping matches a non-looped UDLM's validation NLL with up to 3.3x fewer training FLOPs.
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