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Alibaba International Intelligent Technology
Alibaba International Intelligent Technology
Sep 3, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Masked Diffusion Challenges Left-to-Right Decoding in Generative Recommendation (Recsys'26)

This paper introduces MDGR, a masked diffusion framework for generative recommendation that replaces autoregressive left-to-right decoding with a parallel mask-denoising process, achieving up to 6.56% relative improvement offline and significant online gains in Alibaba's advertising platform.

AlibabaMasked DiffusionOnline A/B Testing
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Masked Diffusion Challenges Left-to-Right Decoding in Generative Recommendation (Recsys'26)
AI Frontier Lectures
AI Frontier Lectures
Mar 13, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Can Masked Diffusion Replace Autoregressive Models? Inside Omni-Diffusion

Omni-Diffusion introduces a masked discrete diffusion backbone for any‑to‑any multimodal tasks, replacing the traditional autoregressive paradigm with parallel token decoding, and demonstrates competitive speech, vision, and image generation performance while offering significant inference speedups.

Large Language ModelsMasked DiffusionOmni-Diffusion
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Can Masked Diffusion Replace Autoregressive Models? Inside Omni-Diffusion