Amitis Shidani

Apple researchers Russ Webb, Amitis Shidani, Alice Bizeul and Dan Busbridge published an October 2026 paper showing that discrete diffusion samplers — including remasking and uniform-state samplers — …

Researchers at Apple trained a 1.7B-parameter categorical flow model on 2.1T tokens and self-distilled it into a Categorical Flow Map (CFM) that generates text in as few as 4 inference steps while mai…