LangFlow: Continuous Diffusion Rivals Discrete in Language Modeling
Continuous diffusion has been the foundation of high-fidelity, controllable, and few-step generation of many data modalities such as images. However, in language modeling, prior continuous diffusion language models (DLMs) lag behind discrete counterparts due to the sparse data space and the underexplored design space. In this work, we close this gap with LangFlow, the first continuous DLM to rival discrete diffusion, by connecting embedding-space DLMs to Flow Matching via Bregman divergence, alongside three key innovations: (1) we derive a novel ODE-based NLL bound for principled evaluation of continuous flow-based language models; (2) we propose an information-uniform principle for setti...
| Authors | Yuxin Chen, Chumeng Liang, Hangke Sui et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 13 April 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 15 April 2026 |
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