We trained a state-of-the-art diffusion VLM, A2D-VL 7B for parallel generation by finetuning an existing autoregressive VLM on the diffusion language modeling task, using the masked diffusion framework which "noises" tokens by masking them and "de-noises" tokens by predicting the… pic.twitter.com/zqU3szysQ1

— Runway (@runwayml) 24 septembre 2025

We trained a state-of-the-art diffusion VLM, A2D-VL 7B for parallel generation by finetuning an existing autoregressive VLM on the diffusion language modeling task, using the masked diffusion framework which "noises" tokens by masking them and "de-noises" tokens by predicting the

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