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Gen-Verse/MMaDA

MMaDA - Open-Sourced Multimodal Large Diffusion Language Models (dLLMs with block diffusion, mixed-CoT, unified RL) observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/Gen-Verse/MMaDA · homepage · Python · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

49/100

  • Activity 67
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 33

Flags: no_releases

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 469
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 200
  • n_releases_24m: 0

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Adoption not part of the score

1668 stars · 91 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

MMaDA is an open-source family of multimodal large diffusion language models that unify textual reasoning, multimodal understanding, and text-to-image generation under a single diffusion architecture. It includes training and inference code, mixed chain-of-thought fine-tuning, and the UniGRPO policy-gradient RL post-training algorithm.

Use cases

  • generate images from text prompts with a diffusion language model
  • run a diffusion-based LLM for text reasoning tasks
  • fine-tune a multimodal model with mixed chain-of-thought data
  • post-train diffusion foundation models with reinforcement learning
  • experiment with non-autoregressive multimodal generation
  • research unified understanding and generation architectures

When to choose

  • you need a single model for both text reasoning and image generation
  • you want to research or extend diffusion language models (dLLMs)
  • you need an open-weights multimodal foundation model with RL training infrastructure

When to avoid

  • you need a production-ready autoregressive LLM with mature ecosystem support
  • you lack GPU resources for 8B-parameter model inference or training
  • you only need standard text-to-image generation without reasoning

Facets

library · maturity active

machine-learning deep-learning llm-training llm-inference image-processing nlp large-language-models deep-learning artificial-intelligence image-processing python diffusion-language-model multimodal text-to-image block-diffusion chain-of-thought reinforcement-learning unigrpo foundation-model natural-language-processing gpu

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