Byte modeling incurs greater scaling overhead for masked diffusion than autoregressive models because the diffusion objective destroys local byte contiguity needed to resolve semantics.
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The Efficiency Gap in Byte Modeling
Byte modeling incurs greater scaling overhead for masked diffusion than autoregressive models because the diffusion objective destroys local byte contiguity needed to resolve semantics.