Layer-wise representation alignment lets diffusion language models reuse semantic structures from frozen autoregressive models, accelerating training by up to 4x without architectural changes beyond the attention mask.
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Don't Retrain, Align: Adapting Autoregressive LMs to Diffusion LMs via Representation Alignment
Layer-wise representation alignment lets diffusion language models reuse semantic structures from frozen autoregressive models, accelerating training by up to 4x without architectural changes beyond the attention mask.