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Continuous diffusion language models
Fully discrete methods dominated for a few years, but language models based on continuous diffusion are making a comeback.

How Stable Diffusion works
Understand in a simple way how Stable Diffusion transforms a few words into a spectacular image.

Beyond Standard LLMs
Linear Attention Hybrids, Text Diffusion, Code World Models, and Small Recursive Transformers

How Large Language Models Actually Work
Models overview
Claude is a family of state-of-the-art large language models developed by Anthropic. This guide introduces the available models and compares their performance.
Scaling Laws Across Model Architectures: A Comparative Analysis of...
The scaling of large language models (LLMs) is a critical research area for the efficiency and effectiveness of model training and deployment. Our work investigates the transferability and...

The Case Against LLMs as Rerankers
Authors: Apoorva Joshi, Zhenmei Shi, Akshay Goindani, Hong LiuResearch Leads: Zhenmei Shi, Akshay Goindani, Hong Liu Large language models are increasingly being used for a broad range of tasks, in…

Stanford CS336 Language Modeling from Scratch I 2025
Recursive Language Models: the paradigm of 2026
How we plan to manage extremely long contexts
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Large language models are cultural technologies. What might that mean?
Four different perspectives

What comes next with open models
Markets, capabilities, cope, and bewilderment in the industrialization of language models.

Stanford CS25: V5 I Transformers in Diffusion Models for Image Generation and Beyond
The physics behind diffusion models
Mixture-of-Experts (MoE): The Birth and Rise of Conditional Computation
What two decades of research taught us about sparse language models...

An Observation on Generalization
What should we make of recent language model advancements in mathematics? In my new post, I reflect on long-standing cognitive debates about symbols and neural networks in light of this progress. infinitefaculty.substack.com/p/symbols-neural-networks-and…
Symbols, neural networks, and mathematical intelligence
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