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Retrofitting Recurrent Depth into a Pretrained Language Model: Installation, Extrapolation, Transfer, and Retention at Two Parameter Budgets

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arXiv:2608. 11233v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A dense, pretrained language model can be retrofitted with recurrent depth and learn an iterative latent transition that persists after outcome-only annealing.

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