LIFT Paper: Transformers Feed Back a Latent State, Not Just One Token

megamor2 · x · 2026-10-30

A new paper introduces LIFT: a language model that passes a latent state from its last layer back into its first layer at every step — letting a Transformer feed back more than one token's worth of information — while still pretraining fully in parallel.

It is the first paper from author TiroshDor, co-authored with @AmosaurusRex and @megamor2, with an accompanying thread.

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