#NCM

NCM Hands-On Test: 4x Faster Than an LLM, or Slower? Local Benchmarks Reveal the Truth

Stanford's NCM claims 31x speedup over diffusion and 86% hard Sudoku. Local tests: 4x faster than a same-size LLM on single requests, but slower at 64 concurrent requests; the Sudoku edge comes mainly from fill order, not architecture.