[darkteflon]

This is very interesting. There was also an article and discussion a couple of days ago on using diffusion models for edit/apply tasks at ~2k tps[1].

If I understand correctly, the ‘apply’ model takes the original code, an edit snippet, and produces a patch. If the original code has a lot of surrounding context (e.g., let’s say you pass it the entire file rather than trying to assess which bits are relevant in advance), are speed and/or performance materially affected (assuming the input code contains no duplication of the code to be amended)?

Does / how well does any of this generalise to non-code editing? Could I use Relace Apply to create patches for, e.g., plain English markdown documents? If Apply is not a good fit, is anyone aware of something suitable in the plain English space?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44057820

[eborgnia]

The diffusion approach is really interesting -- it's something we haven't checked out for applying edits just yet. It could work quite well though!

You can definitely use it for markdown, but we haven't seen anyone test it for plaintext yet. I'm sure it would work though, let us know if you end up trying it!

[darkteflon]

Perfect, thanks for the reply - I absolutely will try it, we have a specific need for this capability.