Anyone tried using the new (ish) Gemma diffusion model as a speculative model?

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Explores using Google's Gemma diffusion model as a speculative model for efficient large language model inference.

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DiffusionGemma is a new experimental model from Google DeepMind that uses parallel generation on a 256-token canvas, achieving up to 4x faster token generation on GPUs. This developer guide explains its architecture, bidirectional context, and includes a fine-tuning recipe for solving Sudoku.