Discrete Diffusion Models Match Autoregressive Performance for Radiology Reports—While Running 3.5-4.4× Faster扩散模型在放射科报告中匹敌自回归模型,解码速度快3.5-4.4倍
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Researchers finetuned DiffusionGemma-26B (3.8B active parameters) head-to-head against autoregressive Gemma-4-26B using identical LoRA recipes to compare discrete diffusion versus autoregressive paradigms for radiology report drafting.
The diffusion model matched or exceeded autoregressive performance on medical VQA benchmarks (VQA-RAD, SLAKE, VQA-Med) while achieving 3.5–4.4× faster decoding at matched output budgets.
The model enables training-free interactive infill where radiologists can pin known report fragments and the model fills gaps using bidirectional context, marking the first medical finetune of DiffusionGemma, currently evaluated on VQA and single-sentence infill tasks.