arXiv Machine Learning

Legible-by-Construction: Attention and End-to-End Transformers

arXiv:2607. 04319v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A companion paper showed that a transformer's feed-forward layer can be rebuilt from explicit fuzzy set operations - intersection, set-difference, and a self-forgetting sequence quantifier - so its hidden units read as named logical operators at no cost to language-model quality.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 13

Training, Reading, and Editing Legible Transformers

arXiv:2607. 08946v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A transformer can be built from operators that are legible by construction -- bounded, named units that read as fuzzy set operations rather than dense activations -- but legibility must be pressed for during training, and the pressure has a failure mode.

By Mark Oskin
arXiv AI
Aug 11

Full-bandwidth transformer

arXiv:2608. 08888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive transformers compute along two axes: horizontally across generated tokens, and vertically through model depth.

By Xi Wang, Ziyang Cai, Zheng Zhan, Harry Dong, Ying Fan, Gustavo de Rosa, Tim Pearce, John Langford
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 18

Relational Attention for Data-Efficient Language Modeling

Relational BabyLM is a decoder‑only Transformer that replaces standard self‑attention with a Dual Attention Transformer (DAT) to separate object‑level lexical features from structural/relational information. The model incorporates a Next‑Latent Prediction objective to compress history into a dense belief state and introduces a RoPE‑based symbol‑retrieval mechanism. On the BabyLM 2026 challenge, the best model ranks 6th overall and 3rd on the NLP‑task subset, outperforming GPT‑2 on most benchmarks and achieving the highest EWoK score among strict‑track entries.

By Adrian Brasoveanu, Ece Takmaz, Jakub Dotla\v{c}il
arXiv AI
Jul 22

A Controlled Study of Attention-Only Transformers

arXiv:2607. 18363v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Feed-forward networks hold two thirds of a transformer's non-embedding parameters, yet the architecture has not received a necessity test that controls parameters, compute, and depth at once.

By Henry Ndubuaku, Karen Mosoyan, Jakub Mroz, Noah Cylich, Satyajit Kumar, Parkirat Sandhu, Roman Shemet, Justin H Lee