# Telescopic Language Models

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> **Original Source**: [arXiv cs.AI](https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.35769v1)
> **Author**: Zhilin Guo, Boqiao Zhang (undefined)
> **Published Date**: Monday, September 28, 2026
> **Category**: RESEARCH
> **Tags**: Research, arXiv, Machine Learning

## Executive Summary
One deployed language model must often serve many compute budgets, yet serving each budget still means a separate training or compression run per point. We train a Telescopic Language Model (TLM) to be that continuum: a nested-capacity Transformer supervised by stochastic prefix



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