Fruitless Labs

“…knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of fruits of action.”

We are an alt-lab based in Toronto, Canada researching underexplored areas and ideas in AI.

Diffusion language models

• ICLR 2026 Blog Post: dLLM - Rethinking Generation Beyond Autoregressive Models

• Awesome dLLM Resources

Tokenizers

• Journey Across the Tokenization Wasteland: An Audit of Vocabulary Hygiene in LLM Tokenizers

Pretraining data

• Under Rolling Review