The Free Transformer
Machine Learning
2025-10-21 v1
Authors:
François Fleuret
Abstract
We propose an extension of the decoder Transformer that conditions its generative process on random latent variables which are learned without supervision thanks to a variational procedure. Experimental evaluations show that allowing such a conditioning translates into substantial improvements on downstream tasks.
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@article{arxiv.2510.17558,
title = {The Free Transformer},
author = {François Fleuret},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.17558},
year = {2025}
}
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