NITP adds dense supervision from shallow model layers to predict implicit next-token semantics, yielding consistent downstream gains on 0.5B-9B models with ~2% extra training FLOPs.
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NITP: Next Implicit Token Prediction for LLM Pre-training
NITP adds dense supervision from shallow model layers to predict implicit next-token semantics, yielding consistent downstream gains on 0.5B-9B models with ~2% extra training FLOPs.