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Predict and Reconstruct: Joint Objectives for Self-Supervised Language Representation Learning

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arXiv:2606. 05173v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Masked language modelling (MLM) has been the dominant pre-training objective for text encoders since BERT, yet it encourages representations that are strongly anchored to surface-form token identity rather than deeper semantic structure.

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Learning Representations through Token Prediction: Geometry, Approximation, and Downstream Guarantees

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