Microsoft Intern Project: Reusing Hidden States at Decoding Boosts LLM Performance for Free

burny_tech · x · 2026-08-13

A novel approach from a Microsoft AI Frontiers internship project enhances LLM performance by feeding the previous hidden state alongside the token embedding during decoding. This technique requires no architectural changes or additional parameters, effectively boosting model performance "for free".

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