This paper presents LLaDA2.0 -- a tuple of discrete diffusion large language models (dLLM) scaling up to 100B total parameters through systematic conversion from auto-regressive (AR) models -- establishing a new paradigm for frontier-scale deployment. Instead of costly training from scratch, LLaDA2.0 upholds knowledge inheritance, progressive adaption and efficiency-aware design principle, and seamless converts a pre-trained AR model into dLLM with a novel 3-phase block-level WSD based training scheme: progressive increasing block-size in block diffusion (warm-up), large-scale full-sequence diffusion (stable) and reverting back to compact-size block diffusion (decay). Along with post-training alignment with SFT and DPO, we obtain LLaDA2.0-mini (16B) and LLaDA2.0-flash (100B), two instruction-tuned Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) variants optimized for practical deployment. By preserving the advantages of parallel decoding, these models deliver superior performance and efficiency at the frontier scale. Both models were open-sourced.
@article{arxiv.2512.15745,
title = {LLaDA2.0: Scaling Up Diffusion Language Models to 100B},
author = {Tiwei Bie and Maosong Cao and Kun Chen and Lun Du and Mingliang Gong and Zhuochen Gong and Yanmei Gu and Jiaqi Hu and Zenan Huang and Zhenzhong Lan and Chengxi Li and Chongxuan Li and Jianguo Li and Zehuan Li and Huabin Liu and Lin Liu and Guoshan Lu and Xiaocheng Lu and Yuxin Ma and Jianfeng Tan and Lanning Wei and Ji-Rong Wen and Yipeng Xing and Xiaolu Zhang and Junbo Zhao and Da Zheng and Jun Zhou and Junlin Zhou and Zhanchao Zhou and Liwang Zhu and Yihong Zhuang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.15745},
year = {2025}
}