BYOD: Build Your Own DLM - Efficient Autoregressive-to-Diffusion Language Model Conversion
READ THE ORIGINAL SOURCEOpen original sourcehuggingface.co · Opens in a new tabThe paper BYOD converts four pretrained autoregressive instruction models (Gemma 2 9B, Llama 3.1 8B, Qwen2.5 7B, Ministral 8B) into bidirectional masked-diffusion language models. All pretrained weights stay frozen and only LoRA adapters, 4.1–5.8% of final parameters, are trained. The four primary conversions took 3.1–4.0 hours each on one Google Colab GPU. A training notebook and browser demos are released. On a nine-task average, BYOD-Gemma scores 50.6% versus 51.9% for LLaDA in the same harness, while the unchanged AR parents perform better on average.
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The paper BYOD converts four pretrained autoregressive instruction models (Gemma 2 9B, Llama 3.1 8B, Qwen2.5 7B, Ministral 8B) into bidirectional masked-diffusion language models. All pretrained weights stay frozen and only LoRA adapters, 4.1–5.8% of final parameters, are trained. The four primary conversions took 3.1–4.0 hours each on one Google Colab GPU. A training notebook and browser demos are released. On a nine-task average, BYOD-Gemma scores 50.6% versus 51.9% for LLaDA in the same harness, while the unchanged AR parents perform better on average.
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- Only LoRA adapters are trained, representing 4.1–5.8% of final model parameters, with pretrained weights frozen.
- The four primary conversions each took 3.1–4.0 hours on one GPU in Google Colab.
- BYOD-Gemma scores 50.6% on the nine-task average versus 51.9% for LLaDA in the same evaluation harness.
- The unchanged autoregressive parent models perform better on average, with large gaps in mathematics and code.
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