{
  "id": "2610.02665",
  "title": "Large Language Continuous Diffusion Models",
  "authors": "Zhihan Yang, Wei Guo, Jean-Marie Lemercier, Simon Welker, Yonggan Fu, Mohammad Mahdi Kamani, Sajad Norouzi, Julius Berner, Tomas Geffner, Karsten Kreis, Yongxin Chen, Molei Tao, John Thickstun, Pavlo Molchanov, Ante Jukić, Arash Vahdat, Morteza Mardani",
  "first_public": "2026-10-02",
  "lens": [
    "continuous",
    "beyond-sequential"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "continuous-state"
  ],
  "training": [
    "pretraining",
    "supervised"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "architecture",
    "capability",
    "efficiency",
    "controllability"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language",
    "symbolic"
  ],
  "summary": "Sigma denoises learned continuous token embeddings in blocks, starting from autoregressive pretrained weights. Studies how guidance and temperature affect mathematical reasoning, coding, output diversity, and performance when fewer refinement steps are used.",
  "computation": [
    "diffusion",
    "parallel"
  ],
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2610.02665",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02665",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-10-18",
  "added_at": "2026-10-18",
  "author_names": [
    "Zhihan Yang",
    "Wei Guo",
    "Jean-Marie Lemercier",
    "Simon Welker",
    "Yonggan Fu",
    "Mohammad Mahdi Kamani",
    "Sajad Norouzi",
    "Julius Berner",
    "Tomas Geffner",
    "Karsten Kreis",
    "Yongxin Chen",
    "Molei Tao",
    "John Thickstun",
    "Pavlo Molchanov",
    "Ante Jukić",
    "Arash Vahdat",
    "Morteza Mardani"
  ],
  "record_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.02665/",
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  "citation_date": "2026-10-02",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.02665/index.md",
  "bibtex_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.02665/citation.bib",
  "csl_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.02665/citation.csl.json"
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