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roenxitoday at 3:42 AM0 repliesview on HN

That is logically equivalent to a serial token prediction engine. If you have a diffusion text model you can use it to implement a serial token generator and if you have a serial token generator you can use that to implement a diffusion-generated text string. Don't think about the efficiencies of that, it is an upsetting idea (eg to generate N tokens, the serialising model might recalculate the same string N times from an input and emit one token of it each time - rather wasteful).

It is similar to how everything ends up being Turing complete. Any prediction system has to be equivalent to some sufficiently complicated text generation system to describe the prediction. And any text-generation system has to be equivalent to a sufficiently complicated model that serially emits tokens.