Nous Research Releases Token Superposition Training to Speed Up LLM Pre-Training by Up to 2.5x Across 270M to 10B Parameter Models

Nous Research releases Token Superposition Training (TST), a two-phase pre-training method that cuts wall-clock training time by up to 2.

5x at matched FLOPs by averaging contiguous token embeddings into bags during Phase 1 and reverting to standard next-token prediction in Phase 2 — without changing the model architecture, tokenizer, optimizer, or inference-time behavior. Validated at 270M, 600M, 3B dense, and 10B-A1B MoE scales.