Large Language Diffusion Models

Nie et al., 2025, Large Language Diffusion Models (Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38 (NeurIPS 2025))

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3.2 Benchmark Results

  1. How did LLaDA 8B compare with LLaMA models?
    The base model beat LLaMA2 7B on nearly all 15 zero/few-shot tasks and was overall competitive with LLaMA3 8B, stronger in math and Chinese. After SFT alone (no RL alignment) it trailed LLaMA3 8B Instruct slightly but followed instructions and held multi-turn conversations.

Source

  • Shen Nie, Fengqi Zhu, Zebin You, Xiaolu Zhang, Jingyang Ou, Jun Hu, Jun Zhou, Yankai Lin, Ji-Rong Wen and Chongxuan Li. 2025. Large Language Diffusion Models. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38 (NeurIPS 2025). https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09992