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arxiv:2410.24159

GPT or BERT: why not both?

Published on Oct 31
· Submitted by stefan-it on Nov 4

Abstract

We present a simple way to merge masked language modeling with causal language modeling. This hybrid training objective results in a model that combines the strengths of both modeling paradigms within a single transformer stack: GPT-BERT can be transparently used like any standard causal or masked language model. We test the pretraining process that enables this flexible behavior on the BabyLM Challenge 2024. The results show that the hybrid pretraining outperforms masked-only or causal-only models. We openly release the models, training corpora and code.

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Very cool idea! Can't wait to try out the implementation, as soon as it is released.

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Paper author

Hi Stefan, thanks for submitting this paper here, we will release the code in a few days, after some quick cleaning :) By the way, I'm one of the authors, I think you assigned it to a different David Samuel ;)

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