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The transformer’s encoder doesn’t just send a final step of encoding to the decoder; it transmits all hidden states and encodings.

BLT architecture (source: arXiv) The encoder and decoder are lightweight models. The encoder takes in raw input bytes and creates the patch representations that are fed to the global transformer.