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Cola-DLM

Cola · Version Cola-DLM

AvailableChecked Oct 23, 2026
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What to know about Cola-DLM

AI-compiled from linked model documentation. This is a catalog reference, not an independent performance review. Catalog checked October 23, 2026.

Which Cola-DLM does this page describe?

Cola-DLM is a model record from ByteDance Seed in the Cola family. Source

The recorded model identifier or checkpoint is Cola-DLM. Use that exact identifier when checking documentation or a provider listing. Source

How can you access Cola-DLM?

The catalog documents Open weights access for Cola-DLM. Source

As of the catalog check, this version was listed as available. Source

Open weights means the model weights are distributed for use under their stated terms. It does not establish a hosted API, an open-source license, or a hardware requirement.

What can Cola-DLM receive and generate?

Documented inputs: text. Source

Documented outputs: text. Source

Input support and output generation are separate capabilities. Reading an image does not establish image generation; a text output listing does not establish speech output. File sizes, formats and media limits depend on the documented implementation.

What license is recorded for Cola-DLM?

The recorded license label is apache-2.0. Source

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What distinguishes Cola-DLM?

These details come from the linked publisher material for this model. Reported capabilities and training descriptions are publisher statements, not independent test results.

Model architecture
Continuous latent diffusion language model combining a text VAE and block-causal Diffusion Transformer. Source
Generation method
Uses Flow Matching to transport a prior over continuous text latents. Source
Released components
The release contains an approximately 500M Text VAE with four encoder and four decoder blocks, plus an approximately 1.8B, 24-layer diffusion transformer. These are component sizes, not a combined checkpoint count. Source
Training stage
Research pretraining checkpoint without instruction tuning or RLHF; it is not a drop-in instruction-following chatbot. Source
Short-prompt limitation
Prompts shorter than one configured block (typically block_size=16) disable classifier-free guidance on their first block and may produce weaker output. Source

What is documented about the Cola-DLM checkpoint?

This evidence refers to ByteDance-Seed/Cola-DLM at recorded revision c1eafdd9cfd8064aeb917d569ef70a075b353eed, checked October 23, 2026. Repository metadata

Repository task tag: text-generation. A task tag identifies a distribution category; it does not measure performance on that task. Repository metadata

Listed library: transformers. Check that library's version and model support before loading the weights. Repository metadata

Repository language labels: en. These labels are not independent evaluations of language quality. Repository metadata

Repository access gate: false. This records the repository's gate setting when checked; licensing and use terms still apply. Repository metadata

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The documented record

Specifications, with their sources.

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Publisher
ByteDance SeedSource ↗
Family
ColaSource ↗
Version
Cola-DLMSource ↗
Availability
AvailableSource ↗
Access
Open weightsSource ↗
Inputs
TextSource ↗
Outputs
TextSource ↗
Context window
Not documented
Maximum input
Not documented
Maximum output
Not documented
Knowledge cutoff
Not documented
Training-data cutoff
Not documented
Training completed
Not documented
Release date
Not documented
License
apache-2.0Source ↗
Input price / 1M tokens
Not documented
Output price / 1M tokens
Not documented

Read this with the numbers.

Official publisher weight listing; availability refers to this distribution, not a guaranteed hosted API. Base, SFT and research variants are identified by their exact published names. Publisher repository evidence (2026-10-23): Publisher task label: text-generation. Repository library label: transformers. Model-card language labels: en; these labels are not evaluated proficiency scores.

Model identifiers and aliases 1
  • ByteDance-Seed/Cola-DLM

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  1. Cola-DLM official model card ↗huggingface.co
  2. Cola-DLM: official publisher repository metadata ↗huggingface.co
  3. Cola-DLM — official model card ↗huggingface.co
  4. Official checkpoint documentation or implementation ↗raw.githubusercontent.com

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Context window
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