# LLaCO-8B reports top scores among diffusion-based LLMs on nine benchmarks

> Original title: Evaluated across 9 standard benchmarks, LLaCO-8B sets a new benchmark for diffusion-based LLMs:

- Source: BAAI
- Published: 2026-11-03T14:03:00.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/bjvt21jgde9w9kdom5mi474sd
- Original: https://x.com/BAAIBeijing/status/2117618552140189866

## Summary

BAAI says its LLaCO-8B, a diffusion-based LLM, scores 62.12 on MATH, 47.02 points above DSL-LLaDA-8B's 15.10. The post reports 48.17 on HumanEval, 80.74 on GSM8K, 69.89 on MMLU and 31.25 on GPQA, and says these results beat discrete models including Dream-7B (51.20 on MATH) and LLaDA-8B (43.82).

## Post

Evaluated across 9 standard benchmarks, LLaCO-8B sets a new benchmark for diffusion-based LLMs:

📊 Crushes Continuous SOTA:
• +47.02 points on MATH over DSL-LLaDA-8B (62.12 vs. 15.10)
• +27.44 points on HumanEval (48.17 vs. 20.73)

🔥 Outperforms Discrete Giants:
• MATH: 62.12 (surpassing Dream-7B's 51.20 & LLaDA-8B's 43.82)
• GSM8K: 80.74 | MMLU: 69.89 | GPQA: 31.25

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