NCM: Fast Parallel Text Generation via Coarse-to-Fine Diffusion
October 8, 2026
Next-Concept Modeling (NCM) uses a multiscale residual VQ-VAE to enable parallel text generation. It achieves better generative perplexity than current diffusion language model baselines on LM1B while running 21 times faster.
HOW THIS AFFECTS YOU
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builderYou can achieve significantly faster inference for parallelized text generation.
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researcherThis demonstrates a more efficient way to scale diffusion language models.