Great work by @FEijkelboom et al Floor Eijkelboom (@FEijkelboom) Discrete diffusion — but fast? ⚡️ Test-time inference — but for discrete data? 🧠 Categorical Flow Maps: continuous transport toward the simplex, turning discrete generation into a single-step problem. Built on Variational FM (CatFlow), we obtain (self-)distillation from scratch. Language, molecules, and test-time steering — one framework. Scaling to LLMs and foundation models next. Watch this space 👀 — https://nitter.net/FEijkelboom/status/2023412552294686734#m

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