# BYOD: Build Your Own DLM - Efficient Autoregressive-to-Diffusion Language Model Conversion

> Source: <https://aiflash.com/news/144586/>
> Published: 2026-11-03 08:00:56+00:00

Unlike autoregressive (AR) models, diffusion language models (DLMs) permit parallel token updates, flexible generation, and bidirectional attention, but leading systems rely on costly pretraining or full-model fine-tuning. We present Build Your Own DLM (BYOD), a generalizable LoRA-only recipe for pa