SPS Transformer Separates State and Prediction
yoavartzi · x · 2026-07-14
A new paper proposes an interesting hypothesis about Transformers: a single hidden state simultaneously handles two competing roles: "saving state" and "predicting the next token."
The core finding suggests that splitting these responsibilities into two independent streams yields better performance than standard Transformers. The paper introduces the State-Prediction Separation (SPS) Transformer, which achieves significant pre-training gains through a very simple architectural modification.
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