Microsoft and Cornell Propose Free Pause Tokens for Better Predictions
A Microsoft and Cornell paper introduces Free Pause Tokens, letting models gain extra computation during training with no inference overhead, where 14% more training time matches training on 50% more tokens.
2026-09-06 ~ 2026-09-07 · 2 related posts
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