Summary of Simplified and Generalized Masked Diffusion For Discrete Data, by Jiaxin Shi et al.
Simplified and Generalized Masked Diffusion for Discrete Data
by Jiaxin Shi, Kehang Han, Zhe Wang, Arnaud Doucet, Michalis K. Titsias
First submitted to arxiv on: 6 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper presents a simple and general framework for masked diffusion models, which are an alternative to autoregressive models for generative modeling of discrete data. The authors show that the continuous-time variational objective of masked diffusion models is a weighted integral of cross-entropy losses, enabling training of generalized masked diffusion models with state-dependent masking schedules. The framework surpasses prior diffusion language models at GPT-2 scale and demonstrates superior performance on 4 out of 5 zero-shot language modeling tasks. Additionally, the models outperform previous discrete diffusion models on pixel-level image modeling, achieving better results than autoregressive models of similar sizes. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is about a new way to make computers generate text and images that looks like it was written or drawn by humans. The authors wanted to make this process easier and more efficient, so they came up with a new method called masked diffusion. This method uses mathematical equations to create pictures and words that look real. The authors tested their method on different tasks and found that it worked better than other methods in most cases. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Autoregressive » Cross entropy » Diffusion » Gpt » Zero shot
