arXiv:2609.08851v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent advancements in transformer length generalization theory enable us to reliably predict when a transformer can learn to solve a task. In particul...
By Georg Zetzsche, Hongjian Jiang, Andy Yang, Pascal Bergstr\"a{\ss}er, Marco S\"alzer, David Chiang, Anthony W. Lin
arXiv:2508. 07743v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While transformers excel in many settings, their application in the field of automated planning is limited.
By Markus Fritzsche, Elliot Gestrin, Jendrik Seipp
arXiv:2607. 11760v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A theoretical understanding of Transformers is crucial to better understand the capacities and limitations of large language models (LLMs).
By Michael Rizvi-Martel, Satwik Bhattamishra, Guillaume Rabusseau, Michael Hahn
arXiv:2603. 02238v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Length generalization is a key property of a learning algorithm that enables it to make correct predictions on inputs of any length, given finite training data.
By Andy Yang, Pascal Bergstr\"a{\ss}er, Georg Zetzsche, David Chiang, Anthony W. Lin
arXiv:2602. 08857v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent work has shown that the computations of Transformers can be simulated in the RASP family of programming languages.
By Xinting Huang, Aleksandra Bakalova, Satwik Bhattamishra, William Merrill, Michael Hahn
arXiv:2607. 17710v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have had a remarkable impact across many areas of machine learning.
By Ehsan Futuhi, Nathan R. Sturtevant
arXiv:2604. 25800v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Chain-of-Thought (CoT) has been shown to empirically improve Transformers' performance, and theoretically increase their expressivity to Turing completeness.
By Oliver Kraus, Yash Sarrof, Yuekun Yao, Alexander Koller, Michael Hahn
arXiv:2605. 22223v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study how we can leverage only a handful of characteristics of a transformer's architecture to closely predict the number of different sequences it can output, both qualitatively and quantitatively.
By Maxime Meyer, Mario Michelessa, Caroline Chaux, Vincent Y. F. Tan
arXiv:2604. 11912v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While next-token prediction (NTP) has been the standard objective for training language models, it often struggles to capture global structure in reasoning tasks.
By Jianhao Huang, Zhanpeng Zhou, Renqiu Xia, Baharan Mirzasoleiman, Weijie Su, Wei Huang
arXiv:2607. 17624v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformers are remarkably versatile and their design is largely consistent across a variety of applications.
By Damien Teney, Liangze Jiang, Hemanth Saratchandran, Simon Lucey
arXiv:2603. 17019v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A central question in the debate over large language models is whether transformers can learn rules they have never seen, or whether they can only interpolate: predict new cases from their similarity to training examples.
By Andy Gray
arXiv:2608.31067v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Learning generalizable algorithmic computations remains a challenge for neural networks, as reflected in persistent failures on compositional and lengt...
By Takuya Ito, Ruchir Puri, Murray Campbell, Parikshit Ram