Writing Facts into Transformers Without Training: New COLM Paper
HazyResearch · x · 2026-07-23
Traditionally, factual knowledge in language models is stored within MLP layers through training. A new paper accepted at COLM 2026 proposes a novel approach: writing facts directly into Transformers without any training.
The researchers provide a closed-form recipe to construct Transformer-ready MLPs capable of storing facts. The work is a collaboration between Hazy Research and other researchers.
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