Pre-pretraining (PPT) on synthetic non-natural language data improves token efficiency during language model pre-training (PT). Prior work attributes this gain to a grammatical prior, i.e., a structural inductive bias learned during PPT that transfers to natural language grammar. However, PPT has only been tested on mo...
Atsuki Yamaguchi, Tatsuro Inaba, Joel Niklaus et al.· 0 citations
This paper proposes MultiHashFormer, a new framework that allows hash-based autoregression that consistently outperforms standard Transformer LMs across multiple benchmarks and shows that the model handles multilingual vocabulary expansion with a constant parameter footprint without any modifications.
This paper initializes byte embeddings directly from the subword representations of a frozen base model, applies a chunk alignment loss to project dynamically grouped byte chunks toward precomputed subword targets, and interleave lightweight part-of-speech supervision to guide boundary detection.