arXiv Machine Learning

A Unified Perspective on the Dynamics of Deep Transformers

arXiv:2501. 18322v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Transformers, which are state-of-the-art in most machine learning tasks, represent the data as sequences of vectors called tokens.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 6

A Mechanistic Analysis of Transformers for Dynamical Systems

arXiv:2512. 21113v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Transformers are increasingly adopted for modeling and forecasting time-series, yet their internal mechanisms remain poorly understood from a dynamical systems perspective.

By Gregory Duth\'e, Nikolaos Evangelou, Wei Liu, Ioannis G. Kevrekidis, Eleni Chatzi
arXiv Machine Learning
4d ago

Pattern Formation in Transformers

arXiv:2609.37921v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: What are the inductive biases of a Transformer architecture? Existing theory on how the forward pass shapes representations either considers whether Tr...

By Erkan Turan, Gaspard Abel, Maks Ovsjanikov
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...

By Hemanth Saratchandran, Simon Lucey
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

Cubit: Token Mixer with Kernel Ridge Regression

The paper introduces Cubit, a Transformer‑style architecture that replaces the standard attention mechanism with Kernel Ridge Regression (KRR). By interpreting attention as Nadaraya‑Watson regression, Cubit incorporates the closed‑form KRR solution, combining kernel‑based value aggregation with normalization via the inverse kernel matrix. The authors also propose a Limited‑Range Rescale (LRR) to stabilize training and report that Cubit shows improved long‑sequence modeling, with gains increasing as training sequence length grows.

By Chuanyang Zheng, Jiankai Sun, Yihang Gao, Yuehao Wang, Liangchen Tan, Mac Schwager, Anderson Schneider, Yuriy Nevmyvaka, Xiaodong Liu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

Incremental Learning of Sparse Attention Patterns in Transformers

arXiv:2602. 19143v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper studies simple transformers trained on a high-order Markov chain, where the model must incorporate information from multiple past positions, each with different statistical importance.

By O\u{g}uz Kaan Y\"uksel, Rodrigo Alvarez Lucendo, Nicolas Flammarion