bibtext: @inproceedings{
  zheng2024a,
  title={A Reparameterized Discrete Diffusion Model for Text Generation},
  author={Lin Zheng and Jianbo Yuan and Lei Yu and Lingpeng Kong},
  booktitle={First Conference on Language Modeling},
  year={2024},
  url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=PEQFHRUFca}
  }
abstract: This work studies discrete diffusion probabilistic models with applications to natural language generation. We derive an alternative yet equivalent formulation of the sampling from discrete diffusion processes and leverage this insight to develop a family of reparameterized discrete diffusion models. The derived generic framework is highly flexible, offers a fresh perspective of the generation process in discrete diffusion models, and features more effective training and decoding techniques. We conduct extensive experiments to evaluate the text generation capability of our model, demonstrating significant improvements over existing diffusion models.
title: A Reparameterized Discrete Diffusion Model for Text Generation
authors: Lin Zheng Jianbo Yuan Lei Yu Lingpeng Kong