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: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:2608. 13433v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transformer-based language models are known to sometimes generalize to sequences longer than seen during training, but we lack a precise characterization of which tasks admit length generalization.
By Andy Yang, Blerta Veseli, Corentin Barloy, Micha\"el Cadilhac, Andreas Krebs, Charles Paperman, Howard Straubing, Michael Hahn
arXiv:2410. 11500v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this paper, we establish a collection of covering number bounds for linear function classes under various norm constraints on the inputs and matrices.
By Lan V. Truong
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
arXiv:2603. 19954v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Transformers have shown inconsistent success in AI planning tasks, and theoretical understanding of when generalization should be expected has been limited.
By Yash Sarrof, Yupei Du, Katharina Stein, Alexander Koller, Sylvie Thi\'ebaux, Michael Hahn
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: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:2503. 01805v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Transformers have revolutionized the field of machine learning.
By Gilad Yehudai, Clayton Sanford, Maya Bechler-Speicher, Orr Fischer, Ran Gilad-Bachrach, Amir Globerson
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. 12671v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-layer transformers form the critical component of essentially all large language models (LLMs) in use today.
By Phokion Kolaitis, Rik Sengupta
arXiv:2503. 07325v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Understanding and certifying the behavior of modern deep neural networks remains a fundamental challenge in reliable machine learning.
By Khoat Than, Dat Phan