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How Transparent is DiffusionGemma?

Engels 2026-06-18
Joshua EngelsCallum McDougallBilal Chughtai

LLM reasoning transparency is a critical affordance for understanding model decisions, mitigating misuse and misalignment, and debugging surprising model behaviors. However, DiffusionGemma performs a larger fraction of its computation in a continuous latent space; does this make its reasoning less transparent? We study this question by decomposing transparency into two components: variable transpa

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Key Contributions

  • LLM reasoning transparency is a critical affordance for understanding model decisions, mitigating misuse and misalignment, and debugging surprising model behaviors.
  • However, DiffusionGemma performs a larger fraction of its computation in a continuous latent space; does this make its reasoning less transparent?
  • We study this question by decomposing transparency into two components: variable transpa

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