
This paper introduces BLT Diffusion (BLT-D), BLT Self-speculation (BLT-S), and BLT Diffusion+Verification (BLT-DV) to accelerate byte-level language models. By replacing autoregressive decoding with block-wise diffusion and verification, the methods achieve over 50% memory-bandwidth reduction and up to 92% with larger blocks, while maintaining competitive performance on translation and code generation tasks.

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