Zarya: A Hybrid Autoregressive--Masked Diffusion Language Model with Flexible Training and Dual-Mode Inference
Autoregressive language models (ARMs) are constrained by sequential, left-to-right generation, while masked diffusion models (MDMs) enable parallel decoding but suffer from high computational overhead due to the inability to reuse Key-Value (KV) cache and from incoherent generation arising from learning dependencies ov...