CoDA: Coding LM via Diffusion Adaptation

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Main Authors: Chen, Haolin, Wang, Shiyu, Qin, Can, Pang, Bo, Liu, Zuxin, Qiu, Jielin, Zhang, Jianguo, Zhou, Yingbo, Chen, Zeyuan, Xu, Ran, Heinecke, Shelby, Savarese, Silvio, Xiong, Caiming, Wang, Huan, Yao, Weiran
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author Chen, Haolin
Wang, Shiyu
Qin, Can
Pang, Bo
Liu, Zuxin
Qiu, Jielin
Zhang, Jianguo
Zhou, Yingbo
Chen, Zeyuan
Xu, Ran
Heinecke, Shelby
Savarese, Silvio
Xiong, Caiming
Wang, Huan
Yao, Weiran
author_facet Chen, Haolin
Wang, Shiyu
Qin, Can
Pang, Bo
Liu, Zuxin
Qiu, Jielin
Zhang, Jianguo
Zhou, Yingbo
Chen, Zeyuan
Xu, Ran
Heinecke, Shelby
Savarese, Silvio
Xiong, Caiming
Wang, Huan
Yao, Weiran
contents Diffusion language models promise bidirectional context and infilling capabilities that autoregressive coders lack, yet practical systems remain heavyweight. We introduce CoDA, a 1.7B-parameter diffusion coder trained on TPU with a fully open-source training pipeline. CoDA pairs large-scale diffusion pre-training with code-centric mid-training and instruction tuning, enabling confidence-guided sampling that keeps inference latency competitive. On Humaneval, MBPP, and EvalPlus, CoDA-1.7B-Instruct matches or surpasses diffusion models up to 7B parameters. Our release includes model checkpoints, evaluation harnesses, and TPU training pipelines to accelerate research on lightweight diffusion-based coding assistants.
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spellingShingle CoDA: Coding LM via Diffusion Adaptation
Chen, Haolin
Wang, Shiyu
Qin, Can
Pang, Bo
Liu, Zuxin
Qiu, Jielin
Zhang, Jianguo
Zhou, Yingbo
Chen, Zeyuan
Xu, Ran
Heinecke, Shelby
Savarese, Silvio
Xiong, Caiming
Wang, Huan
Yao, Weiran
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
I.2.7
Diffusion language models promise bidirectional context and infilling capabilities that autoregressive coders lack, yet practical systems remain heavyweight. We introduce CoDA, a 1.7B-parameter diffusion coder trained on TPU with a fully open-source training pipeline. CoDA pairs large-scale diffusion pre-training with code-centric mid-training and instruction tuning, enabling confidence-guided sampling that keeps inference latency competitive. On Humaneval, MBPP, and EvalPlus, CoDA-1.7B-Instruct matches or surpasses diffusion models up to 7B parameters. Our release includes model checkpoints, evaluation harnesses, and TPU training pipelines to accelerate research on lightweight diffusion-based coding assistants.
title CoDA: Coding LM via Diffusion Adaptation
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
I.2.7
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03270