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title: "What are encoder-only and decoder-only models?"  
description: "What are encoder-only and decoder-only models?"  
author: "Manish Kumar"  
published: 2026-06-11  
updated: 2026-06-12  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/116780/what-are-encoder-only-and-decoder-only-models  
category: "artificial-intelligence"  
tags: ["llm"]  

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# What are encoder-only and decoder-only models?


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