On the Opportunities and Challenges of Prefill-to-Autoregressive Cross-Model Transfer
The paper studies prefill-to-autoregressive cross-model transfer (PACT), where a larger sender model processes the prompt and passes representations to a smaller receiver that generates the response.
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The paper studies prefill-to-autoregressive cross-model transfer (PACT), where a larger sender model processes the prompt and passes representations to a smaller receiver that generates the response. It introduces PLatour, which connects frozen models via lightweight linear bridges trained with task rewards, and reports gains over open-source PACT baselines on generation tasks. The authors also find that some gains can be reproduced by uninformative sender signals, self-communication, or receiver-only training. They propose PACT-Check and PACT-Score to separate communication gains from adaptation gains.
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Evidence is task-dependent; controls nearly match PLatour on GSM8K, and the comparison to Mostik's reported results may involve different training setups.
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Evidence is task-dependent; controls nearly match PLatour on GSM8K, and the comparison to Mostik's reported results may involve different training setups.
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PLatour outperforms evaluated open-source PACT baselines on generation tasks.
Source: Hugging Face ↗Stored source-based brief · key point 1 · AINewsIQ paraphraseOn some tasks, uninformative sender signals or receiver-only training reproduce much of the improvement.
Source: Hugging Face ↗Stored source-based brief · key point 2 · AINewsIQ paraphraseTrainable bridges can act as parameter-efficient adaptation even when both backbones are frozen.
Source: Hugging Face ↗Stored source-based brief · key point 3 · AINewsIQ paraphrasePACT-Check and PACT-Score are proposed to quantify how much gain comes from genuine sender communication.
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Evidence is task-dependent; controls nearly match PLatour on GSM8K, and the comparison to Mostik's reported results may involve different training setups.
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Evidence is task-dependent; controls nearly match PLatour on GSM8K, and the comparison to Mostik's reported results may involve different training setups.
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