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Hao Liu on Twitter: "Our method, Forgetful Causal Masking(FCM), combines masked language modeling (MLM) and causal language modeling (CLM) by masking out randomly selected past tokens layer-wisely using attention mask. https://t.co/D4SzNRzW06" /
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