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Mechanism

Multi-token prediction

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train the model to guess several next tokens at once, not just one

Where it sits

The prism has six jobs across and eight layers down. Its primary cell islearn × L4. Hatched cells cannot exist — a GPU does not learn, an institution does not infer.

What must come first — and what it unlocks

Left to right is reading order, derived from the prerequisite_of edges. Nothing here is hand-ordered: the diagram is the graph.

nothing comes first — this is a starting pointMulti-token predictionnothing depends on it yet — a leaf in the reading order

What kind of thing it is — and what it is made of

It is part of: Pretraining.

Where to read it

The chapter that introduces it, and any chapter that uses it again.

45DeepSeekact 10 · The Open-Weight World

Where it comes from

paperDeepSeek-V3 Technical ReportDeepSeek-AI · 2024

Every connection

All 1 edges touching this node, grouped by relation family — the sections above are highlights from this list. Colours match the relation families inthe atlas.

Structure · 1
is part ofPretrainingAlgorithm

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