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Scaling Categorical Flow Maps
Apple Machine Learning Research · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Apple researchers scaled Categorical Flow Maps to 1.7B parameters on 2.1T tokens, generating text in 4 inference steps with competitive quality.
- Why it matters
- Language model engineers exploring faster inference alternatives to autoregressive models should track this work for practical deployment insights.
- Watch out
- The method maintains near-data-level token entropy but scalability challenges and loss weighting requirements at scale remain incompletely characterized.
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