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Thinking Tokens for Language Modeling

David Herel, Tomas Mikolov

Gives a recurrent language model extra hidden-state updates by inserting special tokens after each word. Tests whether these updates improve next-word prediction.

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arXiv:2405.08644 · Initial submission: 2024-05-14

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Thinking tokens — Give a model extra tokens for computation, such as pauses, filler symbols, or learned planning tokens. These tokens need not spell out the solution.

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