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.