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Training-Free Multi-Token Prediction: LLMs Already Have Latent MTP Capability.
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ArXiv 2603.17942 demonstrates that standard next-token models exhibit latent multi-token prediction capabilities extractable via lightweight embedding-space probes, with no additional training required. Inference speedups match explicitly MTP-trained models. Existing deployed models can be accelerated with MTP probes as a zero-cost optimization — challenging the assumption that dedicated training objectives are required. arXiv
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