Masked Diffusion

Concurrent Image Understanding and Generation: Self Correcting Coupled Markov Jump Processes

Fern and Lintel dig into a new paper on doing image understanding and image generation at the same time, inside one decoding loop. The hook is simple: most systems either describe first and draw later, or they run both sides in parallel without letting the latest text and image decisions correct each other mid-step. This paper tries to fix that with a coupled masked-diffusion sampler that can both coordinate and backtrack.