Researchers debate whether LLMs need token-for-token conditioning to generalize

srush_nlp · x · 2026-07-23

A discussion about whether token-for-token conditioning is really necessary in LLM training.

One side says the harness argument is plausible, but token-level conditioning seems unlikely to be the whole story because LLMs already show strong input generalization beyond exact training patterns.

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