Diffusion Language Models as Open Quantum Systems
Diffusion language models generate text by reversing a classical diffusion process over token sequences. We show that their continuous-time forward and reverse dynamics can be embedded in the framework of open quantum systems, which describes quantum systems interacting with their environment. This connection provides a basis for extending diffusion sampling to superpositions of sentence states and for modifying the underlying generation dynamics....
Diffusion language models generate text by reversing a classical diffusion process over token sequences. We show that their continuous-time forward and reverse dynamics can be embedded in the framework of open quantum systems, which describes quantum systems interacting with their environment. This connection provides a basis for extending diffusion sampling to superpositions of sentence states and for modifying the underlying generation dynamics....