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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.
Deep explanation
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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