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Lennart Carstens-Behrens

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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Learning to Learn a Language

We present the Prior-Fitted Language Model (PFLM), a 300M-parameter byte-level transformer pretrained only on samples from a synthetic non-linguistic prior. Given a prefix of real text, it learns to predict the language in context with frozen weights, having never seen a word of any real language. Every training sequen...

Lennart Carstens-Behrens, Holger Fröhlich · 0 citations