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Stable-DiffCoder

ByteDance Seed · 15 January 2026

8B open diffusion code LLM that beats comparable autoregressive and diffusion code models, using block-diffusion continued pretraining on the Seed-Coder pipeline.

A controlled test that diffusion-style training can improve code modeling beyond autoregressive training at fixed data and architecture, with a block-wise clipped noise schedule. MIT licence.

Date
Thursday, 15 January 2026
Lab
ByteDance Seed
Kind
open-weights
Access
open weights

Date from HF weights upload (2026-01-15 UTC); no dated launch post found. Authors state it surpasses ~8B AR and diffusion code models; no numbers captured.

Sources

  1. bytedance-seed.github.io/Stable-DiffCoder/
  2. huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/Stable-DiffCoder-8B-Instruct

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