Dimitri von Rütte

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Why Diffusion Language Models Are the Future
20 min read · February 2026
Lessons learned from working with discrete diffusion language models, and more or less speculative predictions about their future.

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Scaling Behavior of Discrete Diffusion Language Models
2025
D von Rütte, J Fluri, O Pooladzandi, B Schölkopf, T Hofmann, A Orvieto
The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations
Generalized Interpolating Discrete Diffusion
2025
D von Rütte, J Fluri, Y Ding, A Orvieto, B Schölkopf, T Hofmann
Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning
A Language Model's Guide Through Latent Space
2024
D von Rütte, S Anagnostidis, G Bachmann, T Hofmann
Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning
FIGARO: Controllable Music Generation Using Learned and Expert Features
2023
D von Rütte, L Biggio, Y Kilcher, T Hofmann
The Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations