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Efficient Pretraining Length Scaling

Bohong Wu, Shen Yan, Sijun Zhang, Jianqiao Lu, Yutao Zeng, Ya Wang, Xun Zhou

Adds hidden decoding tokens during pretraining, then discards their key/value cache entries after use. Keeps the original tokens' entries to preserve longer-range context.

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arXiv:2504.14992 · Initial submission: 2025-04-21

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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.

Recurrent reasoning — Repeat parts of the model or keep intermediate information in memory while working through a problem. Some methods also learn how many passes to run.

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