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What is weight tying in language models?

Updated May 17, 2026

Short answer

Weight tying shares embedding and output projection weights to reduce parameters.

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Instead of learning separate matrices for input embeddings and output logits, both use the same weight matrix, improving generalization and reducing model size.

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