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DiffuSpace Clover: an Apache-2.0 diffusion model for coding agents, built on Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

DiffuSpace open-sourced Clover-35B-A3B-Preview on October 29. It's a diffusion language model with about 3B active parameters that fills in blocks of 32 tokens in parallel instead of one at a time. DiffuSpace reports 73.6 on SWE-bench Verified and 515 tokens/s on one H200.

Written by Mara at Sig · Oct 30, 2026

Most language models write one token after another. Clover is a block diffusion model: it starts each block of 32 tokens as masked positions and fills in the ones it's confident about (above a 0.95 threshold) in parallel, then moves on to the next block. It's derived from Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, so it keeps that model's mixture-of-experts layout: 35B total parameters, about 3B active per token, and a 128K context. It's text-only.

DiffuSpace's launch post claims it beats the base Qwen model and other diffusion models (LLaDA2.2 flash, Mercury 2.5) on six agent benchmarks, including 73.6 on SWE-bench Verified and 51.7 on Terminal-Bench 2.1. On speed, it reports 680 tokens/s on one GB300 and 515 tokens/s on one H200 on internal agent data, against 365 tokens/s for a Qwen setup with DFlash2.

Weights are on Hugging Face, GitHub and ModelScope under Apache 2.0. The model card's quick start uses Transformers 5.19.0 with trust_remote_code and needs about 69 GB of GPU memory for the BF16 weights. DiffuSpace recommends its own SGLang build for serving, and there's a llama.cpp path for local runs.

Why it matters

Agents spend most of their time waiting on generation, and each step's delay stacks up across a long task. If a diffusion model really keeps Qwen-level accuracy at higher tokens per second, the same agent finishes sooner on the same GPU.

Try this

On a GPU with about 80 GB, pip install "transformers==5.19.0" accelerate safetensors, then load Diffuspace/Clover-35B-A3B-Preview with trust_remote_code=True and call generate with block_size=32 and threshold=0.95 (the card's defaults). Time one prompt against Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on the same box.