arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 24
Selective Rotary Position Embedding
arXiv:2511. 17388v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Position information is essential for language modeling.
Higher Embedding Dimension Creates a Stronger World Model for a Simple Sorting Task
arXiv:2510. 18315v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We investigate how embedding dimension affects the emergence of an internal "world model" in a transformer trained with reinforcement learning to perform bubble-sort-style adjacent swaps.
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Next-Latent Prediction Transformers Learn Compact World Models
arXiv:2511. 05963v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Transformers replace recurrence with a memory that grows with sequence length and self-attention that enables ad-hoc lookups over past tokens.
arXiv AI
Jun 30
Emergence of Minimal Circuits for Indirect Object Identification in Attention-Only Transformers
arXiv:2510. 25013v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Mechanistic interpretability aims to reverse-engineer large language models (LLMs) into human-understandable computational circuits.
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Invariant Learning Dynamics of Transformers in Inductive Reasoning Tasks
We present a theoretical framework to explain the emergence of inductive reasoning abilities in Transformer language models. While previous works on Transformer learning dynamics have so far been mostly tied to specific tasks, we study a generalized class of inductive tasks that unifies several synthetic tasks known in the literature, including in-context n-grams and multi-hop reasoning.
arXiv AI
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From Language to Behavior: Scaling Sequence Transformers for Industrial Recommendation Ranking with Rec-Native Designs
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arXiv AI
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How Local Mixing Encodes Relative Position in Global NoPE Attention
arXiv:2609.38109v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The attention operation is naively position invariant. However, positional information is fundamental to natural language, and therefore a variety of...
arXiv AI
Jul 14
Invariant Learning Dynamics of Transformers in Inductive Reasoning Tasks
arXiv:2607. 11875v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a theoretical framework to explain the emergence of inductive reasoning abilities in Transformer language models.
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 1
You Do Not Fully Utilize Transformer's Representation Capacity
arXiv:2502.09245v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In contrast to RNNs, which compress their history into a single hidden state, Transformers can attend to all past tokens directly. However, standar...
arXiv Machine Learning
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Data Efficient Any Transformer-to-Mamba Distillation via Attention Bridge
arXiv:2510.19266v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: State-space models (SSMs) have emerged as promising alternatives to Transformers for sequence modeling. However, training competitive SSMs from scr...
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 30
Dense Local Dependencies Induce Attention-Logit Explosion and Training Instability During Long-Sequence Transformer Training
arXiv:2505. 15548v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autoregressive transformer language models frequently exhibit training instability when trained on long sequences, particularly under low-precision arithmetic.
arXiv AI
Jun 18
Dual Dimensionality for Local and Global Attention
arXiv:2606. 18587v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Decoder-only Transformers compute attention over the KV cache of preceding tokens.
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 10
Conditioned Initialization for Attention
arXiv:2609.07086v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformers are a dominant architecture in modern machine learning, powering applications across vision, language, and beyond. At the core of their su...